On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:48:09PM +0200, SER.RI-TIC - David Losada wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > actually, I have adapted your patch for applying to the current RHEL4 > Samba release (samba-3.0.10-1.4E.12.2). Would you mind to check if I > have made any flagrant mistakes? If anyone reads this and decides to try > it, please bear in mind it's experimental. > > Summary of what I have modified from your patch: > > * no patch for smbd/aio.c , because it's just not there yet in this release > * in smbd/fileio.c:sync_file() , doesn't check for the "sync always" > directive, the check's not originally there > * in smbd/fileio.c:sync_file() , for accessing the fd, it's just > "fsp->fd", not "fsp->fh->fd" > * in smbd/reply.c:reply_write() , ignored the hunk around > CHECK_WRITE(fsp), because in this release that check is not made > * took into account that the checking of conditions for forcing > synchronization (lp_strict_sync, lp_sync_always, write_through) hadn't > yet been refactored into the fileio.c:sync_file() function > > If patching from a vanilla samba-3.0.10 release, should apply the > "smbd_deferred_open_backport" patch first. I'm also attaching it for > convenience. > > If your patch makes it to next Samba official release, and this patch > receives your blessing, could we put them in consideration of RedHat for > an errata? The fact it helps to avoid silent data corruption in an > scenario like ours, should be interesting for them.
This work looks good - it's not a complex change. The fix will definately be in 3.0.25b, I'll let Simo pick up the change for RH for their older versions if he thinks it's warrented. Thanks, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba