[PATCH 0/2] afs: Miscellaneous fixes

Marc Dionne marc.dionne at auristor.com
Wed Mar 13 05:55:42 PDT 2024


On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Here are some fixes for afs, if you could look them over?
>
>  (1) Fix the caching of preferred address of a fileserver.  By doing that, we
>      stick with whatever address we get a response back from first rather then
>      obeying any preferences set.
>
>  (2) Fix an occasional FetchStatus-after-RemoveDir.  The FetchStatus then
>      fails with VNOVNODE (equivalent to -ENOENT) that confuses parts of the
>      driver that aren't expecting that.
>
> The patches can be found here:
>
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-fixes
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> David Howells (2):
>   afs: Don't cache preferred address
>   afs: Fix occasional rmdir-then-VNOVNODE with generic/011
>
>  fs/afs/rotate.c     | 21 ++++-----------------
>  fs/afs/validation.c | 16 +++++++++-------
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>

Marc



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