Re: [PATCH v2 15/17] locks: give lm_break a return value

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:38:41AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Christoph suggests:
> 
>    "Add a return value to lm_break so that the lock manager can tell the
>     core code "you can delete this lease right now".  That gets rid of
>     the games with the timeout which require all kinds of race avoidance
>     code in the users."
> 
> Do that here and have the nfsd lease break routine use it when it detects
> that there was a race between setting up the lease and it being broken.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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