Greg KH wrote: > 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: >> >> 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. > I have backported this patchset for 2.6.27.7 along with cifs data corruption fixes and would be sending it to stable@xxxxxxxxxx requesting for inclusion since these had been merged upstream and fixes various critical problems. Thanks, -- Suresh Jayaraman -- 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
