linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] rxrpc: Fix hang due to missing notification

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Date:   Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:13:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gerry@...istor.com,
        marc.dionne@...istor.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] rxrpc: Fix hang due to missing notification

From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:49:47 +0100

> Here's a fix for AF_RXRPC.  Occasionally calls hang because there are
> circumstances in which rxrpc generate a notification when a call is
> completed - primarily because initial packet transmission failed and the
> call was killed off and an error returned.  But the AFS filesystem driver
> doesn't check this under all circumstances, expecting failure to be
> delivered by asynchronous notification.
> 
> There are two patches: the first moves the problematic bits out-of-line and
> the second contains the fix.
> 
> The patches are tagged here:
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> 	rxrpc-fixes-20200605

Pulled, thanks David.