(subset) [PATCH 6/8] afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:07:50 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> In afs_wait_for_operation(), we set transcribe the call responded flag to
> the server record that we used after doing the fileserver iteration loop -
> but it's possible to exit the loop having had a response from the server
> that we've discarded (e.g. it returned an abort or we started receiving
> data, but the call didn't complete).
> 
> This means that op->server might be NULL, but we don't check that before
> attempting to set the server flag.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[6/8] afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/830c1b2c1c28