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, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:06:44AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, I will queue it for the 3.5 kernel as well.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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