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    [PATCH] Fix oops in fs/locks.c on close of file with pending locks · d634cc15
    Steve French authored
    
    
    The recent change to locks_remove_flock code in fs/locks.c changes how
    byte range locks are removed from closing files, which shows up a bug in
    cifs.
    
    The assumption in the cifs code was that the close call sent to the
    server would remove any pending locks on the server on this file, but
    that is no longer safe as the fs/locks.c code on the client wants unlock
    of 0 to PATH_MAX to remove all locks (at least from this client, it is
    not possible AFAIK to remove all locks from other clients made to the
    server copy of the file).
    
    Note that cifs locks are different from posix locks - and it is not
    possible to map posix locks perfectly on the wire yet, due to
    restrictions of the cifs network protocol, even to Samba without adding
    a new request type to the network protocol (which we plan to do for
    Samba 3.0.21 within a few months), but the local client will have the
    correct, posix view, of the lock in most cases.
    
    The correct fix for cifs for this would involve a bigger change than I
    would like to do this late in the 2.6.13-rc cycle - and would involve
    cifs keeping track of all unmerged (uncoalesced) byte range locks for
    each remote inode and scanning that list to remove locks that intersect
    or fall wholly within the range - locks that intersect may have to be
    reaquired with the smaller, remaining range.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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