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Message-Id: <1248365792.29722.3.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:16:32 -0500
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
Cc: jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jfs: Fix early release of acl in jfs_get_acl
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:45 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Commit 073aaa1b142461d91f83da66db1184d7c1b1edea "helpers for acl
> caching + switch to those" introduced new helper functions for
> acl handling but seems to have introduced a regression for jfs as the
> acl is released before returning it to the caller, instead of
> leaving this for the caller to do.
> This causes the acl object to be used after freeing it, leading
> to kernel panics in completely different places.
This looks good. Thanks much! I'll get it upstream as soon as
possible.
> Thanks to Christophe Dumez for reporting and bisecting into this.
>
> Reported-by: Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Christophe Dumez <dchris@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
> ---
> fs/jfs/acl.c | 4 +---
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Thanks,
Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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