Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

Greg KH
2013-11-18T16:32:38Z

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:16:55AM -0500, Bruce Fields wrote:
> (Argh, sorry, with the right stable address cc'd this time I hope.)
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:10:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > FWIW, not taking ->i_lock there definitely looks like a good thing. As for
> > 64bit ->i_ino itself... Looks like the main problem is the shitload of
> > printks - the actual uses of ->i_ino are fine, but these suckers create
> > a lot of noise. So for now I'm going with Bruce's variant; 64bit i_ino
> > doesn't look too bad (even on i386, actually), but it'll have to wait
> > until 3.14. Too noisy and late in this cycle...
>
> I believe we also want that in stable?
>
> 950ee9566a5b6cc45d15f5fe044bab4f1e8b62cb "exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd
> handling of 64-bit inode numbers"

It breaks the build in 3.12 and others so if it is needed, please
provide a backport that works properly to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h