Return-Path: Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:60056 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753878AbcCONUA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:20:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:19:59 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: William Dauchy Cc: NeilBrown , Linux NFS mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc/cache: drop reference when sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() detects a race Message-ID: <20160315131959.GA419@fieldses.org> References: <87y49ylq76.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <20160314203846.GA22276@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:43:37PM +0100, William Dauchy wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:38 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Sorry for the delay. I agree, it seems simple enough; applying for > > 4.6.... > > It it something we can consider for stable? It's an unlikely-looking race, I haven't seen it reported in the wild, and the consequences are just a reference-count leak (though admittedly those can sometimes cause crashes later--I haven't checked for that here). So I wasn't planning too, but any additional information's welcomed. --b.