Re: [PATCH 0/3] sunrpc: change handling of use-gss-proxy file

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On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:30:45 -0500
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:18:02AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > This patchset fixes a couple of problems with the use-gss-proxy procfile
> > and does some general cleanup around that code. Bruce, can you consider
> > this for 3.14? Getting it into linux-next soon would be good too...
> 
> Yep, applied locally, should get pushed out tomorrow-ish.
> 
> I suppose the first should also go to stable if the "tar up /proc" case
> merits it.
> 
> The races look like they require pretty unusual userspace behavior, so
> I'm not inclined to backport those.
> 
> --b.
> 

Yeah, I think the first patch is probably reasonable for stable. There
are a number of tools that tar up /proc files in order to collect info
for troubleshooting and those are likely to get stuck with this.

The other two are theoretical races I noticed by inspection so I don't
think they would be appropriate for it.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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