On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:06:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:18:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > >> Jeff and I have worked on a series of patches to fix the oopses, > >> memory corruption and mount failures due to races in various linked > >> list handling relating to socket, session and tree connection when > >> using the reproducer detailed here: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5720 > >> > >> The fix series is now merged into cifs-2.6.git > > > > Are these patches going to be sent to Linus for the 2.6.28 release? > > Should they be also added to the 2.6.27-stable tree when they get to > > Linus's tree? If so, what are their git commit ids? > > The fixes passed testing (both Jeff's and mine) and I am planning to > request a merge upstream tomorrow morning. I am waiting on testing > to finish of an unrelated fix, a one line fix (to cifs_writepages) for > a writepages corruption under heavy stress that Shaggy suggested, > before requesting the merge. > > I don't mind the large mount/umount fix series (diffstat shows about > 800 lines added, 800 removed) being included in stable, it does fix > some oopses that can occur with simultaneous cifs mounts/umounts > racing. Well, if Linus takes them so late in the merge window, I'll consider also adding them to -stable, as they do fix reported problems, and are good to have in there for users who rely on cifs. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
