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Message-Id: <AAEF6AFC-06DE-46DA-A409-D69A5F8D3E3D@linuxhacker.ru>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:54:28 -0400
From:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	"J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfsd state handling fixes


On Jun 14, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> These three patches do the much discussed job of making nfsd state handling
> more robust in face of races where several opens arrive for the same file
> at the same time from the same client.
> 
> This does not yet handle a case when one of those opens gets an error
> and others don't.
> 
> Also this is undergoing testing ATM, so please only use it as a
> discussion/review piece for now.

With 24 hours in testing an no problems encountered, I guess
it's safe to declare this patchset as good to go if nobody has any
objections against it.

> 
> Oleg Drokin (3):
>  nfsd: Always lock state exclusively.
>  nfsd: Extend the mutex holding region around in nfsd4_process_open2()
>  nfsd: Make init_open_stateid() a bit more whole
> 
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> fs/nfsd/state.h     |  2 +-
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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