linux-kernel - Re: Reiserfs.c bug in 3.2-rc5

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Message-ID: <1325616312.2095.26.camel@falcor>
Date:	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:45:11 -0500
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
	hjanssen@...rosoft.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Jorge Bastos <mysql.jorge@...imal.pt>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
Subject: Re: Reiserfs.c bug in 3.2-rc5

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 08:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Commit fb88c2b changed the security_old_inode_init_security() return
> > code for S_PRIVATE inodes. As long as -EOPNOTSUPP is expected, probably
> > should revert that as well.
> >
> > (I'm cc'ing the ocfs2 maintainers.)
> 
> Jan, Joel? Can you confirm? I was planning on doing 3.2 today, but
> maybe I can't, or maybe we need to punt this to be a stable patch.
> 
> But maybe we can have quick testing and agreement? Does everybody
> agree on both Honza's patch *and* revert of fb88c2b? Does the
> EOPNOTSUPP return case match what we used to do?
> 
>                           Linus
> 

Just clarifying not all of commit fb88c2b, but only the
security_old_inode_init_security() hunk.

Mimi

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