Backport of gssproxy patches for Fedora 19

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:39:08PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:24:41AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 08:17 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:09:39PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 15:37 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > > > > > > I have a backport to 3.9.3 (which turned out to need a couple more
> > > > > > > > patches in addition to the above) at
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > 	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux-topics.git 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Sorry, I forgot to give the branch: 3.9-gssproxy-backport
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I'll grab them from there.  If I have troubles, I'll let you know.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ok, they're applied in kernel-3.9.4-302.fc19.  Please test things out.
> > > > 
> > > > I am getting an oops, I will work with Bruce to find the cause and fix
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > Did you track this down?  We're probably going to be doing another build
> > > to submit as an update today, and I'd rather not include known oopsing
> > > patches.  If this doesn't have a fix yet, I'll temporarily remove the
> > > patches for the update build.
> > > 
> > > josh
> > 
> > Bruce sent me 2 patches yesterday, but haven't got to test them yet.
> > The code is not activated by default, so there is little harm in putting
> > them in, the only thing that will fail is gssproxy, as the whole code
> > path is enabled only if gssproxy is started at boot.
> 
> Did you get a chance to test them?  I'm doing an update today.

Just setting it up, so I'd expect results in a couple hours.

> > But either way is fine, we are planning on verifying he fixes and make
> > sure the bug is squashed today one way or another.
> 
> I'll go with disabling the patches unless you have fixes to apply.  The
> functionality might not be used by default, but knowingly shipping code
> that causes an oops when used isn't very responsible.

OK, up to you.

--b.