Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15] afs, rxrpc: Clean up refcounting on afs_cell and afs_server records

On 2/25/25 12:41 AM, David Howells wrote:

Here are some patches that fix an occasional hang that's only really
encountered when rmmod'ing the kafs module.  Arguably, this could also go
through the vfs tree, but I have a bunch more primarily crypto and rxrpc
patches that need to go through net-next on top of this[1].

Now, at the beginning of this set, I've included five fix patches that are
already committed to the net/main branch but that need to be applied first,
but haven't made their way into net-next/main or upstream as yet:

    rxrpc: rxperf: Fix missing decoding of terminal magic cookie
    rxrpc: peer->mtu_lock is redundant
    rxrpc: Fix locking issues with the peer record hash
    afs: Fix the server_list to unuse a displaced server rather than putting it
    afs: Give an afs_server object a ref on the afs_cell object it points to

You don't need to re-post such patches, just wait a couple of days, when
net will be merged back into net-next. So that we will not have
"duplicate changes" inside the tree.

The remaining patches in this series touch only AFS, I'm unsure if
net-next if the best target here??? The rxrpc follow-up could just wait
the upcoming net -> net-next merge. AFAICS crypto patches go trough
their own tree.

Thanks!

Paolo