linux-kernel - Re: NFSv4 poops itself

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Message-Id: <1185557340.6586.51.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:29:00 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"Dr. J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
Subject: Re: NFSv4 poops itself

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Jeff and Bruce, could you please try to reproduce the problem after
> > either applying patches 001 to 004 or just the single NFS_ALL patch
> > from 
> > 
> >    http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.23-rc1/
> 
> 
> It's not easily reproducible here.  Any hints on triggering the behavior?

I suspect that the problem may involve mixing O_RDWR with O_RDONLY
and/or O_WRONLY file access. Bruce might have a better suggestion,
though.
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