[PATCH] Remove all uses of talloc_autofree_context() from our code (except for test)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 08:41:14AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:47:20PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Thinking about it some more, you're actually correct about
> > this improving the libsmbclient libs without the null tracking
> > removal change - the gnome VFS programs that use libsmbclient
> > don't turn on null tracking. So I may have more room to experiment
> > there..
> 
> libsmbclient depends on so much stuff that I believe this is hopeless.
> For libsmbclient I believe that we need to have a separate compatible
> ABI layer that is thread-safe but feeds the requests into our code
> under a mutex. Much like source3/libsmb/pylibsmb.c does it.  From
> there we can then add parallelism. Like the Linux kernel did ages ago
> with its BKL removal efforts.

I'm not sure it's so hopeless. To make progress we need
a BKL around the entry points to libsmbclient, and then
we can slowly shrink the area under the lock.

Or did I just state the same thing as you said in a different way
(I think I probably did :-).