linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36: Sound stop working

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Message-ID: <1281664431.2996.60.camel@dhcp231-200.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:53:51 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36: Sound stop working

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:41:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > I'll see what can be done to fix that mess more or less right way...
> 
> .. but I assume you don't wan tto keep those "struct file" games in
> fanotify regardless, right? So we can fix the sound issue by the
> revert I sent out, no?

Sorry I'm just coming into this now that it is 'solved.'  I just got
back to my hotel from Linuxcon and haven't been checking e-mail.  I
guess noone (including me) is testing sound in linux-next   :(.  I
wonder what kind of tom foolery it must be doing with f_count (like I
am) to have hit problems.

I certainly agree the revert patch you sent should be applied if the
worst artifact for calling dentry_open() with an 'arbitrary dentry' is
that it fails.

An easier long term fix might be a 'dentry_open_as' which I can call in
the context of the original opening process but which will be done (for
security/accounting/fd table/etc purposes) as the process which will
ultimately consume the new struct file.  I don't know which would be
better/easier for the VFS, Al?

-Eric

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