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Message-ID: <20100629174122.GN28364@laptop> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:41:22 +1000 From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [patch 02/52] fs: fix superblock iteration race On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:35:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:02:14AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> This should actually be on it's way to Linus for .35, shouldn't it? > > > > Yeah, I was waiting for Al to reappear, but I think this is > > probably the nicest way to solve the problem. Linus? > > I'll apply it. We have a couple of oopses listed for the superblock > iterator, and I haven't heard from Al. And the patch looks obviously > fine, whether it's actually the cause of some of the bugs or not. OK. I only have managed to get it into an infininte loop but I think it would be surely possible to oops it because the next pointer can be uninitialised memory at that point. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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