Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix NFSv4 lookup revalidation

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:34:56AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:13:23AM -0700, Qian Lu wrote:
> > Hello Greg,
> > 
> > Can you please consider including the following patches in the stable
> > linux-4.14.y branch?
> > 
> > The following patch series attempts to address the issues raised by
> > Stan Hu around NFSv4 lookup revalidation.
> > 
> > The first patch in the series should, in principle suffice to address
> > the exact issue raised by Stan, however when looking at the
> > implementation of nfs4_lookup_revalidate(), it becomes clear that we're
> > not doing enough to revalidate the dentry itself when performing NFSv4.1
> > opens either.
> > 
> 
> You can not just ignore the 4.19.y kernel tree for these patches, as
> when you all finally move forward from 4.14.y to 4.19.y, you would have
> hit these same exact issues :(
> 
> I have also queued them up to 4.19.y.
> 
> Well, except for the last patch, that's not needed at all.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks for catching that.

Thanks,
Qian



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