Re: [PATCH 0/2] afs: Miscellaneous fixes

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Mar 14 2024 - 07:13:58 EST


On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:15:01 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 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.
>
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/2] afs: Don't cache preferred address
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b719dcc8b02d
[2/2] afs: Fix occasional rmdir-then-VNOVNODE with generic/011
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/4eed8f8549f4