From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: third patch Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:51:25 +0530 Message-ID: <49266175.9090403@suse.de> References: <20081114185039.1f3af842@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650811141609n63f3631bn6493e2be76b1bed6@mail.gmail.com> <20081115063641.26003498@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650811161918i738ba50frd87666a58640b76f@mail.gmail.com> <20081117055603.GA1381@kroah.com> <524f69650811171506y1f518c3bnac03e4f557ba29fb@mail.gmail.com> <20081117233833.GA28435@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve French , linux-fsdevel , "linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org" , LKML , Jeff Layton To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:52818 "EHLO victor.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbYKUHVQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:21:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081117233833.GA28435@kroah.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:06:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:18:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: >>>> Jeff and I have worked on a series of patches to fix the oopses, >>>> memory corruption and mount failures due to races in various linked >>>> list handling relating to socket, session and tree connection when >>>> using the reproducer detailed here: >> >> I don't mind the large mount/umount fix series (diffstat shows about >> 800 lines added, 800 removed) being included in stable, it does fix >> some oopses that can occur with simultaneous cifs mounts/umounts >> racing. > > Well, if Linus takes them so late in the merge window, I'll consider > also adding them to -stable, as they do fix reported problems, and are > good to have in there for users who rely on cifs. > I have backported this patchset for 2.6.27.7 along with cifs data corruption fixes and would be sending it to stable@kernel.org requesting for inclusion since these had been merged upstream and fixes various critical problems. Thanks, -- Suresh Jayaraman