On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:27:03AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:25:26AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > > From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:26:13 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > Mike reports ongoing problem with leakage of refcounts for the net in > > > nfsd when localio is used. I believe the first patch fixes one possible > > > cause. The second patch removes some related dead code. > > > > > > Mike: thanks for your testing so far. Hopefully you could find time to > > > test this one too? > > > > > > [...] > > > > Applied to nfsd-testing, thanks! > > > > I assume 1/2 should be expedited? If so, I can add a Cc: stable and > > get it into v6.17-rc. > > Yes, it should be expedited. BTW, Neil's LOCALIO changes that were merged during 6.16 merge window have dependencies on his generic wait_on_var advances. So all these LOCALIO 6.16 changes won't have an easy time of getting back to 6.12 stable@ for example. But given the Fixes: in the LOCALIO changes that were merged to 6.16 I'd imagine 6.14 stable@ _could_ pick them up... so explicitly tagging this fix with "Cc: stable" likely makes sense. But had they picked up the 6.16 patches for 6.14 stable@ then they should know to pick up this fix anyway (as side-effect of Neil's Fixes: tag). Chuck, pretty certain you know all this.. I'm just sharing what I know for others' benefit.
