Re: [GIT PULL] please pull file-locking related changes for v4.2

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Mon Jul 13 2015 - 09:39:04 EST


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:45:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The following changes since commit b9243b5a5d2da4eb0a54950f4e2d6272863b48be:
>
> Merge branch 'parisc-4.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux (2015-07-10 16:54:37 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux.git tags/locks-v4.2-1
>
> for you to fetch changes up to ee296d7c5709440f8abd36b5b65c6b3e388538d9:
>
> locks: inline posix_lock_file_wait and flock_lock_file_wait (2015-07-13 06:29:11 -0400)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> File locking related changes for v4.2 (pile #1)
>
> I had thought that I was going to get away without a pull request this
> cycle. There was a NFSv4 file locking problem that cropped up that I
> tried to fix in the NFSv4 code alone, but that fix has turned out to be
> problematic. These patches fix this in the correct way.
>
> Note that this touches some NFSv4 code as well. Ordinarily I'd wait for
> Trond to ACK this, but he's on holiday right now and the bug is rather
> nasty. So I suggest we merge this and if he raises issues with it we
> can sort it out when he gets back.

Sounds reasonable to me.

(And without this my regular NFS testing crashes the client every time.)

--b.

>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeff Layton (5):
> Revert "nfs: take extra reference to fl->fl_file when running a LOCKU operation"
> locks: have flock_lock_file take an inode pointer instead of a filp
> locks: new helpers - flock_lock_inode_wait and posix_lock_inode_wait
> nfs4: have do_vfs_lock take an inode pointer
> locks: inline posix_lock_file_wait and flock_lock_file_wait
>
> fs/locks.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> include/linux/fs.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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