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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:35:12 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>,
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Subject: Re: local denial-of-service with file leases
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* Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no) wrote:
> Bruce has a simpler patch (see attachment). The call to fasync_helper()
> in order to free active structures will have already been done in
> locks_delete_lock(), so in principle, all we want to do is to skip the
> fasync_helper() call in fcntl_setlease().

Yes, that's better, thanks.  Will you make sure it gets to Linus?

thanks,
-chris