linux-kernel - Re: Oops in NFSv4 server in 2.6.23.17

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:19:20 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@....muni.cz>, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in NFSv4 server in 2.6.23.17

On Friday March 14, bfields@...ldses.org wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 04:05:10PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> > I find that a little contorted.  So I'll go ahead and submit this small
> > patch to 2.6.25 and stable now (I have since managed to reproduce what I
> > believe is your bug, though my symptoms were a little different), and
> > then submit to 2.6.26 some cleanup which makes this more understandable,
> 
> Here's an attempt.  We could break up fh_verify even more, though.--b.

Looks like a good attempt.

My only suggestion would be to put a comment at the top of
nfsd_set_fh_dentry explaining what it does and who calls it.

It's long past time that code had some spring cleaning !!

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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