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Date:	Fri, 27 May 2011 14:13:49 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	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 Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:12:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

	I saw.  Thanks.

Joel

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