linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc3: reiserfs: WARNING: at fs/namei.c:1251 lookup_one

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:51:18 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, David <david@...olicited.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc3: reiserfs: WARNING: at fs/namei.c:1251
	lookup_one_len

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:13:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> : Yeah, the sanity check had caught another place misusing lookup_one_len().
> : I'd keep the warning in place for now; I think I know how to deal with
> : reiserfs side of things, but if it turns out too invasive for post-rc3,
> : we can always turn the check off just for -final.  For now I'd keep the
> : check in place, just to see if anything else runs into it.
> 
> It would be nice to plug this sooner rather than later please, to save
> a bit of bug-reporting bandwidth.

Post-rc4; I've a preliminary for that one, but it'll need to be untangled
to go in at that phase.  I think I know how to make it reasonably non-invasive,
but that's still not finished.
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