[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "SUNRPC: fix races on PipeFS UMOUNT notifications" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:16 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 15:53 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > 
> >     SUNRPC: fix races on PipeFS UMOUNT notifications
> > 
> > to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
> > which can be found at:
> > 
> >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
> > 
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.5.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > reply to this email.
> > 
> > For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > -Kamal
> > 
> > ------
> > 
> > From 26655857295527252a3d6606b4cb248580b7843d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky at parallels.com>
> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:15:14 +0400
> > Subject: SUNRPC: fix races on PipeFS UMOUNT notifications
> > 
> > commit adb6fa7ffe9031857ec14b8aab75c9ab65556cbc upstream.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can we please hold off on this patch and the other PipeFS followups for
> now? It isn't completely clear that people are hitting these problems in
> the wild, and the patch itself introduces bugs which still aren't 100%
> fixed upstream (I have 1 more patch queued to deal with the aftermath).
> 
> Let's just wait until we have definite proof that people are Oopsing,
> and we've addressed all the issues in the upstream kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Trond
> 

No problem.  I've dropped the SUNRPC commits from the linux-3.8.y-queue.

Thanks Trond,

 -Kamal

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