linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/9] file locking fixes + fuse nfs export support

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Message-ID: <20080513211756.GA25349@fieldses.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 17:17:56 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] file locking fixes + fuse nfs export support

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:05:28PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > A separate question--does the problem you reported with interrupted lock
> > > > requests still exist?
> > > 
> > > No, that bug seems to have gone away in 2.6.26-rc1.  Don't know how,
> > > since the 2.6.25 + nfs.git was still bad.
> > 
> > Yipes.
> > 
> > > Should I bisect it to see which patch solved it? ;)
> > 
> > That would be kinda amusing....
> > 
> > Well, and since I don't remember seeing anything that'd fix that I'd
> > like to make sure it isn't still lurking.
> 
> Well, it was in the nfs-2.6 tree after all (commit 4d7c402).  I just

I think you must mean c4d7c402b788b73dc24f1e54a57f89d3dc5eb7bc, "NFS:
Remove the buggy lock-if-signalled case from do_setlk()"?

> mucked up testing the last time, probably because I didn't truly
> believe in this fix.

OK, that makes much more sense!  Thanks for the confirmation.

--b.
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