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Message-ID: <20070601175245.GD8398@cvg>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:52:45 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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 12:51:34PM -0500]
| Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >[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 ;)
|
| Not if it's already built in (at least not with more hackery than it's
| worth...) - just rebuild your kernel w/ udf as a module.
|
| BTW my testcase before was bogus, that's not what's causing the lockup.
| I'll keep investigating now that I know what *not* to look for. ;-)
|
| -Eric
|
Thanks for answer
Cyrill
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