linux-kernel - Re: nfsd stuckage

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:51 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Subject: Re: nfsd stuckage

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:02:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > I just built current mainline plus the just-sent 266 -mm patches.
> > > 
> > > The machine failed to power off when hit with `halt -pfn'.  dmesg output:
> > 
> > Christoph, can you live with this for now?
> 
> nfsd part is well, livable.  But the fs/sync.c is buggy as stackable
> filesystems can call vfs_fsync with a NULL pointer due to nfs calling it
> that way, so please drop that hunk.

Whoops, OK, I didn't understand that.  I'll drop that hunk, retest, then
submit--should take a few minutes.

--b.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/