Re: nfsd stuckage

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 06 2009 - 18:04:52 EST


On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:02:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > I just built current mainline plus the just-sent 266 -mm patches.
> >
> > The machine failed to power off when hit with `halt -pfn'. dmesg output:
>
> Christoph, can you live with this for now?

nfsd part is well, livable. But the fs/sync.c is buggy as stackable
filesystems can call vfs_fsync with a NULL pointer due to nfs calling it
that way, so please drop that hunk.
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