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From:   "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To:     "Chuck Lever III" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc:     "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@kernel.org>,
        "Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] nfsd: close potential race between open and delegation
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Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:46:16 +1000
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 17, 2022, at 11:21 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > But right now I have a cold and don't trust myself to think clearly
> > enough to create code worth posting.  Hopefully I'll be thinking more
> > clearly later in the week.
> 
> Thanks for the update!
> 
> Here are my plans: I'd like to finalize content of the first 5.20
> NFSD pull request this week. If these patches are not ready by
> then, I can prepare a second PR later in the 5.20 merge window
> with your work, which should give you another two weeks. If they
> are still not ready, I'll get them in first thing for the next
> merge window.

FYI I've addressed the outstanding issues (I think), but have not yet done
any testing or given the patches a final inspection.  I hope to do that
tomorrow, and will post the patches once it is done.
If you want a preview you can find them on github.com/neilbrown/linux
in the "nfsd" branch.

Jeff's patches to validate delegations after getting the lease, so we
don't have to hold the lock so long, comes first.

NeilBrown