Re: [request for stable inclusion] nfs: don't allow nfs_find_actor to match inodes of the wrong type

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:04:08 +0800
Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Benny, Jeff or Trond,
> 
> f6488c9ba51d65410e2dbc4345413c0d9120971e
> nfs: don't allow nfs_find_actor to match inodes of the wrong type
> 
> This looks applicable to stable-3.4, that fix an oops introduced by putting
> a null pointer and found in RHEL6. It was built successful for me.
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks!
> Rui Xiang
> 

I've no objection to adding it to stable. It should be reasonably safe
and will be included in RHEL6.5.

IIRC, the reason we didn't do that before was that it required a server
that was misbehaving in a particular way and we didn't know of any in
the field.

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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