From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932293AbcFJTHX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:07:23 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50062 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494AbcFJTHW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:07:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:07:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ian Kent Cc: Andrei Vagin , autofs@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs: don't stuck in a loop if vfs_write returns an error Message-Id: <20160610120720.60e26470d41b002db9218c10@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1465435406.3154.4.camel@themaw.net> References: <1459487558-21258-1-git-send-email-avagin@gmail.com> <1459496266.2974.1.camel@themaw.net> <1464053664.3108.21.camel@themaw.net> <1464587527.3025.6.camel@themaw.net> <1465435406.3154.4.camel@themaw.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 09:23:26 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > > I was getting ready to send these over to Andrew and found that opendir(3) is > > failing on a number of tests (51 of 230, 9 fails are expected) with 4.6.0. > > > > It's not the patches, yours or mine and it doesn't happen with 4.4.x kernels. > > > > Looks like I'm going to have to bisect to work out what's going on and that > > will > > take a while. > > The regression has been fixed now. > > Al Viro sent a patch for it to Linus yesterday, it's commit e6ec03a25f1 in the > Linux tree. > > I can send my patches to Andrew (after re-testing) but any autofs related > testing of linux.next will need the above commit. > > Andrew, surely this isn't the first time this type of problem has happened, how > is it usually handled, what do I need to do to make this go smoothly? e6ec03a25f1 is in Linus's tree now so everything should be good.