Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > If you don't hold lock_flocks throughout fcntl_setlease, the flp variable > > points to a flock that may get modified by another thread and you call > > time_out_leases() without holding lock_flocks, which it requires. Whoops, thanks for catching that. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:39:24AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Do locks_alloc_lock and initialization of the heap struct file_lock > in the caller. This also avoids an entirely useless copy of the > lock structure. free the passed in structure if we are modifying > an existing lock structure. That sounds good; I'll give it a try. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html