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Message-ID: <20140819070143.GB12859@ulmo>
Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:01:45 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jonas.jensen@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Initialize mountpoint list head in new_mountpoint()

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:43:54PM -0300, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo wrote:
> The commit 89f7ca1af15bdfe7a6aed343032a84af2a69f736 makes next-20140818
> to panic because mountpoint list head was not initialized.  Initializing
> it with NULL fixes the problem.
> 
> commit 89f7ca1af15bdfe7a6aed343032a84af2a69f736
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@...tter.com>
> Date:   Sun Sep 22 19:37:01 2013 -0700
> 
>     vfs: Keep a list of mounts on a mount point
> 
>     To spot any possible problems call BUG if a mountpoint
>         is put when it's list of mounts is not empty.
> 
>     AV: use hlist instead of list_head
> 
> Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <mopsfelder@...il.com>
> ---
>  fs/namespace.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

It's considered good etiquette and polite to credit the original author
of a patch. This should be:

Originally-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>

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