Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:51:25 +0530 | From | Suresh Jayaraman <> | Subject | Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: third patch |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:06:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:18:43PM -0600, Steve French wrote: >>>> Jeff and I have worked on a series of patches to fix the oopses, >>>> memory corruption and mount failures due to races in various linked >>>> list handling relating to socket, session and tree connection when >>>> using the reproducer detailed here: >> >> I don't mind the large mount/umount fix series (diffstat shows about >> 800 lines added, 800 removed) being included in stable, it does fix >> some oopses that can occur with simultaneous cifs mounts/umounts >> racing. > > Well, if Linus takes them so late in the merge window, I'll consider > also adding them to -stable, as they do fix reported problems, and are > good to have in there for users who rely on cifs. >
I have backported this patchset for 2.6.27.7 along with cifs data corruption fixes and would be sending it to stable@kernel.org requesting for inclusion since these had been merged upstream and fixes various critical problems.
Thanks,
-- Suresh Jayaraman
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