Re: [PATCH 0/3] sunrpc: change handling of use-gss-proxy file

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:18:02AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> This patchset fixes a couple of problems with the use-gss-proxy procfile
> and does some general cleanup around that code. Bruce, can you consider
> this for 3.14? Getting it into linux-next soon would be good too...

Yep, applied locally, should get pushed out tomorrow-ish.

I suppose the first should also go to stable if the "tar up /proc" case
merits it.

The races look like they require pretty unusual userspace behavior, so
I'm not inclined to backport those.

--b.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff Layton (3):
>   sunrpc: don't wait for write before allowing reads from use-gss-proxy
>     file
>   sunrpc: fix potential race between setting use_gss_proxy and the
>     upcall rpc_clnt
>   sunrpc: get rid of use_gssp_lock
> 
>  net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c |  2 -
>  net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c    | 75 ++++++++++--------------------------
>  net/sunrpc/netns.h                   |  1 -
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> 
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> 1.8.4.2
>