netdev - Re: NFS writes broken in net-next-2.6

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Message-ID: <1283976850.2237.9.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:14:10 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS writes broken in net-next-2.6

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 13:05 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:01:08 +0100
> 
> > In net-next-2.6, close() of a file after writing tends to return 1.
> > This causes e.g. gcc to abort.
> > 
> > This appears to have been fixed in 2.6.36-rc2:
> > 
> > commit 0702099bd86c33c2dcdbd3963433a61f3f503901
> > Author: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
> > Date:   Wed Aug 11 13:10:16 2010 -0400
> > 
> >     NFS: fix the return value of nfs_file_fsync()
> > 
> > Please consider merging this fix in some way.
> 
> Ben, and please I've told you this before,

I don't think so.

> if you need a specific
> upstream fix do your testing on a branch that pulls in Linus's tree
> or, alternatively, apply the fix you need by hand using "git stash" or
> similar.
[...]

Sure, that's what I'm doing.  But this is likely to hit more developers
than just me.

Ben.

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