Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6203 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751934AbaAFL6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:58:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:58:15 -0500 From: Jeff Layton To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ssorce@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] sunrpc: change handling of use-gss-proxy file Message-ID: <20140106065815.70ff2c37@tlielax.poochiereds.net> In-Reply-To: <20140105203045.GC22918@fieldses.org> References: <1388837885-8312-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20140105203045.GC22918@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:30:45 -0500 "J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:18:02AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > This patchset fixes a couple of problems with the use-gss-proxy procfile > > and does some general cleanup around that code. Bruce, can you consider > > this for 3.14? Getting it into linux-next soon would be good too... > > Yep, applied locally, should get pushed out tomorrow-ish. > > I suppose the first should also go to stable if the "tar up /proc" case > merits it. > > The races look like they require pretty unusual userspace behavior, so > I'm not inclined to backport those. > > --b. > Yeah, I think the first patch is probably reasonable for stable. There are a number of tools that tar up /proc files in order to collect info for troubleshooting and those are likely to get stuck with this. The other two are theoretical races I noticed by inspection so I don't think they would be appropriate for it. Thanks, -- Jeff Layton