From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull bdc54d8e3cb4 to 4.7
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 16:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160905141452.GA14700@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufa37lnweth.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 02:33:14PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Please consider pulling bdc54d8e3cb4 into the 4.7 series. (And 4.6 if
> it's still going.) This patch is in v4.8-rc1:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Fix infinite looping in rpc_clnt_iterate_for_each_xprt
>
> After over a week of debugging, I found 80b14d5e61ca (which went in
> during the 4.6 merge window) be the cause of a particularly bad NFS
> client issue which was killing my servers
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369600). The client issue
> seems to be fixed by bdc54d8e3cb4; I've patched that into 4.7.2 on about
> 150 NFS client desktops and the problem has gone away without
> introducing any regressions that I can see.
>
> I do not know why this was not initially submitted to stable; I asked
> Trond if he would submit it and he suggested that I do so instead.
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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2016-08-29 19:33 Please pull bdc54d8e3cb4 to 4.7 Jason L Tibbitts III
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