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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:40:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100109024005.GI30528@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100109023035.GH30528@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:30:35AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Interesting...  There's nfs_update_inode(), but it ought to scream bloody
> murder on the type change (and its return value is ignore by nfs_fhget(),
> BTW).

Uh-oh...  Just what will happen if we get FATTR_MODE without FATTR_TYPE,
BTW?  AFAICS, the check for changed type won't trigger, but we will
get type bits in i_mode set to 0.  Probably unrelated, but...

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-09  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07 20:29 [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes Trond Myklebust
2010-01-07 21:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-07 21:23   ` Peter Staubach
2010-01-07 21:35     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-07 21:53   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-07 23:51     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08  0:14       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-08  0:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:45           ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08  1:03             ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-08  1:03           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-08  1:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  1:22               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-08  1:26                 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-01-09  0:56                   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code Trond Myklebust
2010-01-09  0:56                     ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] VFS: Add a mmap_file() callback to struct file_operations Trond Myklebust
2010-01-09  0:56                     ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] NFS: Fix a potential deadlock in nfs_file_mmap() Trond Myklebust
2010-01-09  1:54                       ` Al Viro
2010-01-09  1:17                     ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09  1:38                       ` Al Viro
2010-01-09  1:46                         ` Al Viro
2010-01-09  1:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09  2:11                           ` Al Viro
2010-01-09  2:22                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09  2:30                               ` Al Viro
2010-01-09  2:40                                 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-01-09  2:43                                   ` Al Viro
2010-01-10  2:00                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08  1:30                 ` [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  1:35                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  2:00                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-14 13:18                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-08  5:19                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08  1:22               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:43         ` Andi Kleen

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