[PATCH] fs/afs/flock and fs/locks: Fix possible sleep-in-atomic bugs in posix_lock_file

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Oct 11 02:47:43 PDT 2017


J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:

> Does that mean nobody's tested fcntl locking over afs since that change in
> 2010?

Quite feasibly not.  I've been beating kAFS into shape and I'm aware of the
lock thing.  It's on the list after getting the core server rotation working
properly since that will affect a whole bunch of code, including the locking
code.

I've more or less finished the server rotation bit.  See:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-2-experimental

David



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