From: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
To: Viro Alexander <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>, Fields Bruce <bfields@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: NFS/d_splice_alias breakage
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:54:36 +0000
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> On Jun 20, 2016, at 10:08, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:25:12AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>> It looks like this patch was totally forgotten?
>> I don't see it in neither vfs nor nfs trees and yet it fixes a very easy to cause
>> crash in nfs code. And I think it's unrelated to the other parallel case too.
> 
> I assumed it would go through NFS tree, seeing that it's NFS-specific and
> has nothing to do with any of the recent VFS changes (oops is triggerable
> starting from 3.11); I can certainly put it through vfs.git, and there
> will be changes nearby, but this one should go into -stable as a separate
> patch.
> 

I?ll take it through the NFS tree.

Cheers
  Trond