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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/afs/flock and fs/locks: Fix possible sleep-in-atomic bugs in posix_lock_file
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:47:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17920.1507715263@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171008010758.GA23643@fieldses.org>

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> Does that mean nobody's tested fcntl locking over afs since that change in
> 2010?

Quite feasibly not.  I've been beating kAFS into shape and I'm aware of the
lock thing.  It's on the list after getting the core server rotation working
properly since that will affect a whole bunch of code, including the locking
code.

I've more or less finished the server rotation bit.  See:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-2-experimental

David

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-11  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-07  9:55 [PATCH] fs/afs/flock and fs/locks: Fix possible sleep-in-atomic bugs in posix_lock_file Jia-Ju Bai
2017-10-07 10:36 ` Jeff Layton
2017-10-08  1:07   ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-10-11  9:47     ` David Howells [this message]
2017-10-11 13:45       ` J. Bruce Fields

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