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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:49:46 -0300
From:	Murilo Opsfelder Araújo <mopsfelder@...il.com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Initialize mountpoint list head in new_mountpoint()

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@...il.com> wrote:
> 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>

(resending to the lists)

Hello, Thierry.

I didn't know about it and you deserve all the credits, for sure.

I'm away from computer today. I'll send a v2 tomorrow night.

-- 
Murilo
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