Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] 9p: Fixes for hard-to-hit bugs

From: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:11:25 +0100

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 04:10:14PM +0300, Tuomas Tynkkynen wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 17:59 +0300, Tuomas Tynkkynen wrote:
> > These two patches fix two hard-to-hit (but really annoying) bugs in
> > 9p.
> > The first one was posted earlier in February (with one R-b), the
> > second
> > is a new one.
> > 
> > Both of these have had soaking in NixOS distribution kernels for
> > a couple of months with no ill effects.
> > 
> > Tuomas Tynkkynen (2):
> >   fs/9p: Compare qid.path in v9fs_test_inode
> >   net/9p: Switch to wait_event_killable()
> > 
> >  fs/9p/vfs_inode.c      |  3 +++
> >  fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c |  3 +++
> >  net/9p/client.c        |  3 +--
> >  net/9p/trans_virtio.c  | 13 ++++++-------
> >  net/9p/trans_xen.c     |  4 ++--
> >  5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Could you apply these? Thanks!

I can pick those, or, if you (or somebody else) are willing to actively
maintain a 9p tree, you could start sending straight to Linus - up to
you.