From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>,
Linux NFS mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc/cache: drop reference when sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() detects a race
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:19:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160315131959.GA419@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ75kXbNjwaf-QWQPq1=ooUxAPmA5qBEH9jGv+k92NEr-4eJXQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:43:37PM +0100, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:38 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > Sorry for the delay. I agree, it seems simple enough; applying for
> > 4.6....
>
> It it something we can consider for stable?
It's an unlikely-looking race, I haven't seen it reported in the wild,
and the consequences are just a reference-count leak (though admittedly
those can sometimes cause crashes later--I haven't checked for that
here).
So I wasn't planning too, but any additional information's welcomed.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-15 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 6:20 [PATCH] sunrpc/cache: drop reference when sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() detects a race NeilBrown
2016-03-14 20:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-15 12:43 ` William Dauchy
2016-03-15 13:19 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2016-03-15 20:37 ` NeilBrown
2016-03-16 7:31 ` William Dauchy
2016-03-16 15:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-16 15:38 ` William Dauchy
2016-03-16 16:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-16 16:16 ` William Dauchy
2016-03-18 6:05 ` NeilBrown
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