From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steve French" Subject: Re: third patch Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:18:43 -0600 Message-ID: <524f69650811161918i738ba50frd87666a58640b76f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081114185039.1f3af842@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650811141609n63f3631bn6493e2be76b1bed6@mail.gmail.com> <20081115063641.26003498@tleilax.poochiereds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , linux-fsdevel , "linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org" To: "Jeff Layton" Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:18311 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755244AbYKQDSp (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:18:45 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1069197nfc.21 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:18:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081115063641.26003498@tleilax.poochiereds.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5720 The fix series is now merged into cifs-2.6.git Thanks to Jeff for great work. It took quite a while to work through, and I worked hard on an approach to make it smaller, but eventually we decided that a larger fix was better. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:09:33 -0600 > "Steve French" wrote: > >> I made a few minor cleanups to cifs_mount ... but have to run to my 7 >> year old's birthday dinner now. If you have time, can you make sure >> patch 3 still merges. >> > > Ahh, the cleanup patch you were talking about didn't show up until I did a pull this morning for some reason. There were some deltas in your cleanup patch that made patch #3 not merge. Here's one that should. > > -- > Jeff Layton > -- Thanks, Steve