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Message-ID: <20120630050238.GZ14083@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:02:38 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	". James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Was: deferring __fput()

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:56:37PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Looking at /var/log/messages, seems like the ata4 and ata5 "SATA link
> down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)" messages are normal.
> 
> ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 1016k freed
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 1964k freed
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 1468k freed
> Failed to execute /init
> Kernel panic - not syncing. No init Found.  Try passing init= option ...
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 not tainted 3.5.0-rc1+
> Call Trace:
> 	panic
> 	init_post
> 	kernel_init
> 	?do_early_param
> 	kernel_thread_helper
> 	start_kernel

Just to make sure - you are not getting IMA violations among all that?  AFAICS,
the damn thing should behave no worse in that respect than your own patch
a while ago, and you haven't mentioned them in this thread, but...
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