Return-Path: Received: from linuxhacker.ru ([217.76.32.60]:33484 "EHLO fiona.linuxhacker.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755083AbcFTPqQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:46:16 -0400 Subject: Re: NFS/d_splice_alias breakage Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Oleg Drokin In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:45:50 -0400 Cc: Al Viro , Trond Myklebust , "J. Bruce Fields" , , " Mailing List" , "" Message-Id: <69B23CC3-E14B-44BA-9067-6AEC124F6461@linuxhacker.ru> References: <20160603033750.GL14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <0C971585-6BFC-4665-832B-9B262F733BFC@linuxhacker.ru> <20160603042648.GN14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <51139F5D-8CC8-4448-B3AB-5EF1B67E2D6C@linuxhacker.ru> <20160603055655.GQ14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20160620140858.GJ14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> To: Anna Schumaker Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Jun 20, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Anna Schumaker wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/20/2016 10:08 AM, Al Viro 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 was going to put together an nfs bugfixes pull request for 4.7 this week, so I can include the patch there if this is easy to hit. Yes, it is very easy to hit.