linux-kernel - Re: isofs oops - d_splice_alias+0x1f (2.6.24-rc5-mm1)

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Message-ID: <20080105094602.GI27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:46:02 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: isofs oops - d_splice_alias+0x1f (2.6.24-rc5-mm1)

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:31:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:10:33 +0000 Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > which would not manage to return ERR_PTR(-EIO), no matter what - it would
> > die on access to inode->i_state.  I don't have -mm tree at hand, check if
> > there's anything affected in these areas.  Perhaps somebody tried to pass
> > error values from isofs_iget() and forgot to update callers?
> 
> Yep.  Unlike 2.6.24-rc5-mm1, 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 has
> 
> iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2.patch
> iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2-update.patch
> 
> so hopefully this was all fixed.

Nope; missed by both; fix (and fix to fix) had been posted, but IMO it's
better to replace the entire sorry pile with new variant of patch dhowells
had posted - it has all fixes folded in.
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