Re: [PATCH 1/2] Re: [autofs] Bad race condition in the new autofs protocol somewhere

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:54 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:07:27AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> > >> Indeed.
> > >> Which kernel can you use?
> > >> I believe that 2200 had another problem so can you use an fc5 kernel
> > >> later than that?
> > > 
> > > I've ported your patch to 2257 (nothing special, only moved lines),
> > > and it seems to work beautifully.  I'm enlarging the testing.
> > > 
> > 
> > If you get the patches into -stable they will end up in Fedora
> > kernels automatically. 2288 (based on 2.6.19) is in testing now...
> 
> Don't they require autofs5 to be of any use though?  That's not going
> to be in fc until it's out of beta I guess.

Not really?

[raven@fc6 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
[raven@fc6 ~]$ rpm -q autofs
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.16
[raven@fc6 ~]$ rpm -q --changelog autofs| head -10
* Sun Feb 11 2007 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc3.16
- update the "task done race" patch to fix a deadlock.

* Wed Feb 07 2007 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc3.14
- fix race when setting task done (bz 227268).

* Tue Jan 30 2007 Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-0.rc3.12
- make double quote handing consistent (at least as much as we can).
- fix handling of trailing white space in wildcard lookup (forward port bz 199720).
- check fqdn of each interface when matching export access list (bz 213700).
[raven@fc6 ~]$ 

The Rawhide or FC-6 srpm should build fine on FC5.

Ian