On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:38:39AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > I think that the intent of this code was to ensure that a process won't > deadlock if it has one fd open with a lease on it and then breaks that > lease by opening another fd. In that case it'll treat the __break_lease > call as if it were non-blocking. > > This seems wrong -- the process could (for instance) be multithreaded > and managing different fds via different threads. I also don't see any > mention of this limitation in the (somewhat sketchy) documentation. > > Remove the check and the non-blocking behavior when i_have_this_lease > is true. This looks reasonable to me, but I'm always very worried about changing userspace exposed behavior.. -- 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
