[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated - release-4-0-0alpha8-861-g457191e

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Aug 7 11:16:08 MDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Tim Prouty wrote:
> I don't remember exactly what we agreed upon for the process of
> backporting bug fixes to maintenance releases, but I think it was
> something like, get the patch signed off by someone else, and then
> Karolin will actually do the pushing.  Does that sound right?
>
> 3121249243f52dcbf8083f5ff137bd580515efa7 allowed us to correctly
> handle renaming directories when a client has files open underneath
> it, but it also introduced a bug.  If a client holds open a handle to
> the directory, and then tries to rename it, the rename should be
> allowed, but in 3.4.x the client will get NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.  We
> have already seen a few instances of SMB clients doing this in the
> field, and customers seeing this seemingly random
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
>
> The attached patches fix the problem against v3-4-test and add a
> regression test so it's not broken by any future patches.  The fix is
> slightly different in 3.4 than it was for master due to the
> smb_filename changes.
>
> Karolin, let me know if you would like me to push these myself, once I  
> get
> an ack.

Actually you need a bug report to attach the patch to,
then get it reviewed and signed off by someone else,
then Karolin pushes it :-).

We definately need this fix, so please log a bug and
attach these to it !

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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