linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] autofs: don't stuck in a loop if vfs

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:07:20 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Cc:	Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>, autofs@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs: don't stuck in a loop if vfs_write returns an
 error

On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 09:23:26 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> wrote:

> > I was getting ready to send these over to Andrew and found that opendir(3) is
> > failing on a number of tests (51 of 230, 9 fails are expected) with 4.6.0.
> > 
> > It's not the patches, yours or mine and it doesn't happen with 4.4.x kernels.
> > 
> > Looks like I'm going to have to bisect to work out what's going on and that
> > will
> > take a while.
> 
> The regression has been fixed now.
> 
> Al Viro sent a patch for it to Linus yesterday, it's commit e6ec03a25f1 in the
> Linux tree.
> 
> I can send my patches to Andrew (after re-testing) but any autofs related
> testing of linux.next will need the above commit.
> 
> Andrew, surely this isn't the first time this type of problem has happened, how 
> is it usually handled, what do I need to do to make this go smoothly?

e6ec03a25f1 is in Linus's tree now so everything should be good.