Re: [PATCH 0/2] filelock: fix conflict detection with userland file delegations

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Dec 01 2025 - 10:53:56 EST


On Mon, 2025-12-01 at 10:19 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, at 10:08 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > This patchset fixes the way that conflicts are detected when userland
> > requests file delegations. The problem is due to a hack that was added
> > long ago which worked up until userland could request a file delegation.
> >
> > This fixes the bug and makes things a bit less hacky. Please consider
> > for v6.19.
>
> I would like a little more time to review this carefully, especially
> in light of similar work Dai has already posted in this area. If by
> "v6.19" you mean "not before v6.19-rcN where N > 3", then that WFM.
>

Ok. Do you have a specific concern? FWIW, I did mention to Dai that the
first patch in this series would make it more palatable to handle his
new lm_breaker_timedout operation in lease_dispose_list().

By v6.19, I mean before v6.19 ships. This bug needs to be fixed before
we release a kernel that provides the new F_SETDELEG interface.

>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Jeff Layton (2):
> > filelock: add lease_dispose_list() helper
> > filelock: allow lease_managers to dictate what qualifies as a conflict
> >
> > Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 1 +
> > fs/locks.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c | 11 +++-
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 7 ++
> > include/linux/filelock.h | 1 +
> > 5 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> > ---
> > base-commit: 76c63ff12e067e1ff77b19a83c24774899ed01fc
> > change-id: 20251201-dir-deleg-ro-41a16bc22838
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

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