Re: [resend PATCH v2 0/2] virtiofs submounts that are still in use forgotten by shrinker

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 12:54:49AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/3/23 18:48, Krister Johansen wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:18:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 10/2/23 17:24, Krister Johansen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I recently ran into a situation where a virtiofs client began
> > > > encountering EBADF after the client / guest system had an OOM.  After
> > > > reproducing the issue and debugging, the problem is caused by a
> > > > virtiofsd submount having the nodeid of its root dentry fogotten.  This
> > > > occurs because it borrows the reference for this dentry from the parent
> > > > that is passed into the function.
> > > 
> > > Please also note that there will be merge conflicts with atomic open patches
> > > from Dharmendra/me. Although probably not too difficult to resolve.
> > 
> > Sure. I'm happy to reparent, resolve those conflicts, re-test, and send
> > another revision when we're ready.  I suspect there are going to be
> > additional changes requested on the v2.  With that in mind, I'll hold
> > off for the moment unless it is going to cause headaches for you.
> 
> I certainly also didn't mean that you should check for merge conflicts, it
> was more an annotation that it might come up - depending on the merge order.
> Please don't stop to do improvements, resolving merge conflicts shouldn't be
> difficult.
> I'm going to add you to the atomic open patch series to keep you updated, if
> you don't mind.

Thanks, no objections from me.  I'm willing to help with any conflict
resolution or retesting tasks, if anything turns out to be non-trivial.
My goal is to get these patches to the state where they're acceptable.
I'm happy to make additional changes, or work against a different
branch.


-K



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Ext4 Filesystem]     [Union Filesystem]     [Filesystem Testing]     [Ceph Users]     [Ecryptfs]     [NTFS 3]     [AutoFS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux Cachefs]     [Reiser Filesystem]     [Linux RAID]     [NTFS 3]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [CEPH Development]

  Powered by Linux