From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752933AbYKQXtY (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:49:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751633AbYKQXtL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:49:11 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:50799 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751823AbYKQXtK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:49:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:38:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Steve French Cc: Jeff Layton , LKML , linux-fsdevel , "linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org" Subject: Re: third patch Message-ID: <20081117233833.GA28435@kroah.com> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <524f69650811171506y1f518c3bnac03e4f557ba29fb@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5720 > >> > >> The fix series is now merged into cifs-2.6.git > > > > Are these patches going to be sent to Linus for the 2.6.28 release? > > Should they be also added to the 2.6.27-stable tree when they get to > > Linus's tree? If so, what are their git commit ids? > > The fixes passed testing (both Jeff's and mine) and I am planning to > request a merge upstream tomorrow morning. I am waiting on testing > to finish of an unrelated fix, a one line fix (to cifs_writepages) for > a writepages corruption under heavy stress that Shaggy suggested, > before requesting the merge. > > 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. thanks, greg k-h