linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs part 2

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Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:29:41 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs part 2

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Works here...  OK, that makes selinuxfs one the most likely suspect; let
> me check if I can reproduce any crap with that...  Do you see anything
> selinux-related in the call chain, BTW?

Yup.The oops scrolled off my screen, but the call chain was:

 init_sel_fs -> kernel_mount_data -> vfs_kern_mount -> mount_fs ->
sel_mount -> mount_single -> (scrolled off)

and then the actual oops happens in d_alloc+0x17, which is
"parent->d_sb", so parent was NULL or something (the register state
also scrolled off, and I didn't check the fault address, so it could
have been some other invalid pointer too).

                   Linus
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