Deadlock detection on file locking is broken on Linux Kernel 5.0.x

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 21 17:23:33 UTC 2019


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:52:09PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:41:31 PM CET Andreas Schneider via samba-
> technical wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > tdbtorture fails on Linux Kernel 5.0.2 which means that the latest changes
> > to file locking have a regression.
> > 
> > So better don't run Samba on a Linux 5.0.x Kernel right now. Jeff Layton
> > started to look into the issue.
> > 
> > I guess tdbtorture should be part of the Kernel testsuite :-)
> 
> Here is the Kernel bug which includes a fix:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202975

Wow, that was an interesting bug report ! Thanks for posting
that one (and yeah, tdbtorture should *definitely* be part of
the kernel testsuite :-).



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