Re: NFS/d_splice_alias breakage

Trond Myklebust
2016-06-20T15:11:20Z

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 10:08, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:25:12AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>> It looks like this patch was totally forgotten?
>> I don't see it in neither vfs nor nfs trees and yet it fixes a very easy to cause
>> crash in nfs code. And I think it's unrelated to the other parallel case too.
>
> I assumed it would go through NFS tree, seeing that it's NFS-specific and
> has nothing to do with any of the recent VFS changes (oops is triggerable
> starting from 3.11); I can certainly put it through vfs.git, and there
> will be changes nearby, but this one should go into -stable as a separate
> patch.
>

I’ll take it through the NFS tree.

Cheers
Trond