linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] afs: Miscellaneous fixes

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:55:42 -0300
From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] afs: Miscellaneous fixes

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Here are some fixes for afs, if you could look them over?
>
>  (1) Fix the caching of preferred address of a fileserver.  By doing that, we
>      stick with whatever address we get a response back from first rather then
>      obeying any preferences set.
>
>  (2) Fix an occasional FetchStatus-after-RemoveDir.  The FetchStatus then
>      fails with VNOVNODE (equivalent to -ENOENT) that confuses parts of the
>      driver that aren't expecting that.
>
> The patches can be found here:
>
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fsgit/log/?h=afs-fixes
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> David Howells (2):
>   afs: Don't cache preferred address
>   afs: Fix occasional rmdir-then-VNOVNODE with generic/011
>
>  fs/afs/rotate.c     | 21 ++++-----------------
>  fs/afs/validation.c | 16 +++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>

Marc