Hi Linus, here's this cycle's update, finally finished on some very old patches (originally april 2015!) to allow fixing open-unlink-fgetattr pattern. Thanks to Eric, Greg and Jianyong for the bulk of the work, and Dan for static analysis fixes on -next. The following changes since commit 3cea11cd5e3b00d91caf0b4730194039b45c5891: Linux 5.10-rc2 (2020-11-01 14:43:51 -0800) are available in the Git repository at: https://github.com/martinetd/linux tags/9p-for-5.11-rc1 for you to fetch changes up to cfd1d0f524a87b7d6d14b41a14fa4cbe522cf8cc: 9p: Remove unnecessary IS_ERR() check (2020-12-01 08:19:02 +0100) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 9p for 5.11-rc1 - fix long-standing limitation on open-unlink-fop pattern - add refcount to p9_fid (fixes the above and will allow for more cleanups and simplifications in the future) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Carpenter (2): 9p: Uninitialized variable in v9fs_writeback_fid() 9p: Remove unnecessary IS_ERR() check Dominique Martinet (2): 9p: apply review requests for fid refcounting 9p: Fix writeback fid incorrectly being attached to dentry Eric Van Hensbergen (1): fs/9p: fix create-unlink-getattr idiom Greg Kurz (2): fs/9p: track open fids fs/9p: search open fids first Jianyong Wu (1): 9p: add refcount to p9_fid struct fs/9p/fid.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- fs/9p/fid.h | 11 ++++++++++- fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c | 2 ++ fs/9p/vfs_dir.c | 6 +++++- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 7 ++++--- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ fs/9p/vfs_super.c | 1 + fs/9p/xattr.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- include/net/9p/client.h | 7 +++++++ net/9p/client.c | 14 +++++++++----- 11 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) -- Dominique