Re: [PATCH 4.19 325/639] afs: Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2020-01-24 10:28:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 68ce801ffd82e72d5005ab5458e8b9e59f24d9cc ]
> 
> Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks as some applications, such
> as firefox, won't work if they can't take such locks on certain state files
> - thereby preventing the use of kAFS to distribute a home directory.
> 
> Note that this cannot be made completely functional as the protocol only
> has provision for whole-file locks, so there exists the possibility

Is this suitable for -stable?

"AFS does not support fine-grained locks" is fine and easy to
understand. "AFS pretends it supports locks and hopes for the best for
benefit of firefox"... may be good idea for mainline, but I don't
think it matches -stable criteria.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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