linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.31-rc8] Problem with detect USB devices

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Message-Id: <1252089313.5254.0.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:35:13 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...stanetworks.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.31-rc8] Problem with detect USB devices

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 20:30 +0200, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> 2009/9/4 Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>:
> > 2009/9/4 Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>:
> >
> >>
> >> Maciej,
> >>
> >> can you run a git bisection?
> >>
> 
> 
> 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd is first bad commit
> commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Date:   Thu Aug 27 03:20:04 2009 -0700
> 
>     inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.
> 
>     Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0'
>     byte to user space after the filename.  Since the rewrite that
>     terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of
>     event_size.  Ouch!
> 
>     So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to
>     set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the
>     strange nul_inotify_event.  I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero
>     will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more
>     efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to
>     do.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> 
> :040000 040000 ae8bc8bebfd205cde1f7b7689f60a2ada08b1e24
> 7be919a71e3e27510ec38f95664a5e770ce82ad8 M      fs
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot revert it (to make sure):
> root@...is:/usr/src/git/linux-2.6# git revert
> 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd
> Automatic revert failed.  After resolving the conflicts,
> mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
> and commit the result.

Update to Linus's newest git tree.  It has a fix for this problem.
Sorry for all the trouble.

-Eric

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