Re: fctnl(F_SETSIG) no longer works in 2.6.17, does in 2.6.16.

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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:23:52 -0700 Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 02:21 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> > static void lease_release_private_callback(struct file_lock *fl)
> > {
> >         if (!fl->fl_file)
> >                 return;
> > 
> >         f_delown(fl->fl_file);
> > =>      fl->fl_file->f_owner.signum = 0;
> > }
> 
> Why should the lease cleanup code be resetting f_owner.signum? That
> looks wrong.
> 
> Stephen, I think this line of code predates the CITI changes. Do you
> know who added it and why?

Because when the original code was written, it was only called when we got
a fcntl(F_SETLEASE, F_UNLCK) call.  The code got moved incorrectly and
noone noticed.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [email protected]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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