linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 - 'touch' command causes Oops.

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:45:32 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 - 'touch' command causes Oops.

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:58 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > do_times passes an unitialized vfsmount into mnt_want_write.  Here's
> > the quick fix (untested), but the right fix is to restructure the complete
> > mess do_utimes is (never let a libc developer write your kernel code.. :)):
> 
> Close - it still blew up, as one reference to nd.mnt remained.  Fixed patch
> is appended - system boots all the way with this applied.

Any idea which fs and distro this was?  I'd like to add it to my tests.

-- Dave

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