Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND-try-2][PATCH] hw/9pfs: fix P9_STATS_GEN handling

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:
> 
> > Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >> Currently we have few issues with P9_STATS_GEN:
> >> 
> >>  - We don't try to read st_gen anything except files or directories, but
> >>    still set P9_STATS_GEN bit in st_result_mask. It may mislead client:
> >>    we present garbage as valid st_gen.
> >> 
> >>  - If we failed to get valid st_gen with ENOTTY, we ignore error, but
> >>    still set P9_STATS_GEN bit in st_result_mask.
> >> 
> >>  - If we failed to get valid st_gen with any other errno, we fail
> >>    getattr altogether. It's excessive: we block valid client use-cases,
> >>    like chdir(2) to non-readable directory with execution bit set.
> >> 
> >> The patch fixes these issues and cleanup code a bit.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Ping?
> >
> 
> I am hoping that this will go to upstream directly without me doing a
> pull request ? Anthony, let me know if this need anything to be done
> from my side

So? Nobody cares?

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 Kirill A. Shutemov