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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 16:14:53 +0200
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
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Subject: Re: Please pull bdc54d8e3cb4 to 4.7
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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