series merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is the second posting of this patchset. The end result of this set > should be indentical to the v1 set, but this fixes some problems in the > intermediate changes that would have introduced bugs for someone doing > a bisect. > > This patchset fixes up some cache invalidation problems that can occur > when cache=loose. The main point is to ensure that we revalidate the > cache prior to satisfying a read. > > At the same time, I added a fix for a potential problem that cropped up > with NFS a while back, and to which CIFS is also vulnerable. > > This was originally reported by Tetsuo Handa, and as far as I can tell > this fixes his testcase, assuming that you also ensure that kernel > oplocks are enabled. > > Given that we're late in the cycle, I'd like to see these merged for > v3.16 but getting them into -next soon would be good. > > Jeff Layton (4): > cifs: convert booleans in cifsInodeInfo to a flags field > cifs: new helper function: cifs_revalidate_mapping > cifs: fix potential races in cifs_revalidate_mapping > cifs: revalidate mapping prior to satisfying aio_read request > > fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 24 ++++++++++++------ > fs/cifs/cifsfs.h | 2 ++ > fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 7 +++--- > fs/cifs/file.c | 16 ++++++------ > fs/cifs/inode.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.9.0 > -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
