linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] afs: Miscellaneous small fixes

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Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:58:51 -0500
From:   Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@...istor.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] afs: Miscellaneous small fixes

On 11/16/2023 10:53 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Here are a set of miscellaneous small fixes to the afs filesystem
> including:
>
>   (1) Fix the afs_server_list struct to be cleaned up with RCU.
>
>   (2) Fix afs to translate a no-data result from a DNS lookup into ENOENT,
>       not EDESTADDRREQ for consistency with OpenAFS.
>
>   (3) Fix afs to translate a negative DNS lookup result into ENOENT rather
>       than EDESTADDRREQ.
>
>   (4) Fix file locking on R/O volumes to operate in local mode as the server
>       doesn't handle exclusive locks on such files.
>
>   (5) Not a fix per se, but set SB_RDONLY on superblocks for RO and Backup
>       volumes so that the VFS can see that they're read only.
>
> The patches can be found here:
>
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-fixes
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> David Howells (5):
>    afs: Fix afs_server_list to be cleaned up with RCU
>    afs: Make error on cell lookup failure consistent with OpenAFS
>    afs: Return ENOENT if no cell DNS record can be found
>    afs: Fix file locking on R/O volumes to operate in local mode
>    afs: Mark a superblock for an R/O or Backup volume as SB_RDONLY
>
>   fs/afs/dynroot.c     |  4 ++--
>   fs/afs/internal.h    |  1 +
>   fs/afs/server_list.c |  2 +-
>   fs/afs/super.c       |  4 ++++
>   fs/afs/vl_rotate.c   | 10 ++++++++++
>   5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@...istor.com>


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