From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:49068 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbbJKNDV (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:03:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:03:20 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength Message-ID: <20151011130319.GB3726@lst.de> References: <1444395806-32111-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20151009152803.GC6825@fieldses.org> <20151009170400.GA7482@lst.de> <20151009174556.GA8188@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151009174556.GA8188@fieldses.org> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 01:45:56PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > If it affected a released client then it's probably worth it even if > it's really a client bug. If it's just something you saw once against > an -rc1, I'd rather leave it for 4.4. This one is a server bug uncovered by a client change that went into 4.3-rc. Additionally when I first reproduced this in Trond's tree it also caused a hang, but that is now gone. Given how little activity the server had around time I'm confident to blame that part on an unknown client bug. So yes, we really need it in ASAP and in stable all the way back.