linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

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Date:	Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:48:06 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

[Eric Sandeen - Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:17:53PM -0500]
| Andrew Morton wrote:
| 
| >Recursive lock_kernel() is OK.
| 
| Oh, it is?  Clearly I am not well versed in the BKL... that's probably a 
| good thing.... :)
| 
| Ok, let me look into it further.  I changed lock_kernel to 
| udf_lock_kernel to complain & backtrace if we re-lock, and it always 
| immediately hung after that; I assumed that was it.  I'll investigate 
| further.
| 
| -Eric
| 

Btw, Andrew is there any way to force kernel to use special UDF module
instead of compiled-in one? (Sorry for stupid question ;)

		Cyrill

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