linux-kernel - Re: OOPS in configfs when doing d

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Date:	Fri, 27 May 2011 23:12:22 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, npiggin@...nel.dk,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OOPS in configfs when doing d_delete

On 05/18/2011 09:58 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:34:29AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 02/22/2011 10:14 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:47:09AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>> 	I think you're right about the superfluous test, but I need more
>>>>> investigation to see what's going on.  Thanks for the report.
>>>>> 	What was causing attach_group() to fail?  Do you know?
>>>>
>>>> Dunno, I just modprobe'd the configfs example from Doc dir
>>>> (configfs_example_macros).
>>>
>>> 	I'm going to revisit the failed example (which shouldn't fail, I
>>> would think).  Can you try the following patch to safely handle the
>>> failure rather than crashing the kernel?
>>>
>>> Joel
>>
>> Hi, what's the status of this? (It's verified to work some time ago.)
> 
> 	The runtime fix is queued up for mainline.  I'll be looking at
> the example code fix for the next merge window.

The fixes for the examples were merged today after being some time in
the -mm tree.

thanks,
-- 
js
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