linux-kernel - Re: NFS/d_splice

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jun 2016 21:33:24 -0400
From:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Mailing List" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFS/d_splice_alias breakage

On Jun 6, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Well, I have some bad news.
> 
> This patch does not fix the issue 100% of the time apparently, I just hit it again.

Ok, so now finally a piece of good news.
Whatever was causing this other much harder to hit crash is gone in -rc2, gone are
some other disturbing things I saw.

Hopefully this patch will get propagated everywhere soonish.