Bug#406902: kernel NFS data loss

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:17:12AM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote:
> On 24 Jul 07 I wrote:
> 
> > The patch below (against 2.6.8-16sarge7) seems to solve the problem.
> > ... [patch for fs/exportfs/expfs.c] ...
> 
> Seems to me that this has been incorporated (or done) in
> linux-source-2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 .
> 
> Earlier, on 20 Jul 07 I wrote:
> 
> > ... I noticed what I thought were oddities. ... Do you think the
> > following "patch" against 2.6.8-16sarge7 code would be useful?
> > ... [patch for fs/nfs/dir.c] ...
> 
> That does not seem to have been added to 
> linux-source-2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 . I am still not quite sure what
> needs lock_kernel(), and anyway my "patch" did not actually solve
> anything, so that might be OK.

Can you give us a status update please? Is this fixed upstream
in the mean time? If not, did you submit your patches and was
there any feedback?

Cheers,
        Moritz