[PATCH] avoid lock oder violation between xattr.tdb and g_lock.tdb

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:47:47PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Running this series of Volker's patches on 4.4-test (adding the one earlier
> patch needed for the missing #define SERVER_ID_BUF_LENGTH
> ) we got a different oops (in get_share_mode_write_time due to corrupt lock
> contents).
> 
> Are there other coreq patches that would need to backport this to 4.4-test
> (or is it safer to use Michael's original small patch ... or ...)?

Can you reproduce this somehow and get me more info like a stack trace
or the corrupted contents? And, your exact patchset? I will need to
backport this to 4.4 and 4.3 for a customer too, so any information
will be very interesting for me.

Thanks,

Volker