Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfsd state handling fixes

From: Oleg Drokin
Date: Wed Jun 15 2016 - 21:54:48 EST



On Jun 14, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> These three patches do the much discussed job of making nfsd state handling
> more robust in face of races where several opens arrive for the same file
> at the same time from the same client.
>
> This does not yet handle a case when one of those opens gets an error
> and others don't.
>
> Also this is undergoing testing ATM, so please only use it as a
> discussion/review piece for now.

With 24 hours in testing an no problems encountered, I guess
it's safe to declare this patchset as good to go if nobody has any
objections against it.

>
> Oleg Drokin (3):
> nfsd: Always lock state exclusively.
> nfsd: Extend the mutex holding region around in nfsd4_process_open2()
> nfsd: Make init_open_stateid() a bit more whole
>
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> fs/nfsd/state.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.4