From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Linux-Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] r/o bind mounts: Accept passing a mnt NULL pointer to mnt_drop_write()
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:25:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071013112502.GA11464@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071012155020.197228145@hasse.suse.de>
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:50:21PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> In case of somebody opens a file with dentry_open(dentry, NULL, ...) we don't
> want to stumble on the NULL pointer mnt in struct file.
We should just not allow a NULL vfsmount in dentry_open. Dave and I have
fixes for reiserfs, and I'll look at the uml use.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-13 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 15:50 [patch 0/2] r/o bind mount fixes for 2.6.23-mm1 Jan Blunck
2007-10-12 15:50 ` [patch 1/2] r/o bind mounts: Dont touch the vfsmount after path_put() Jan Blunck
2007-10-12 16:06 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-12 15:50 ` [patch 2/2] r/o bind mounts: Accept passing a mnt NULL pointer to mnt_drop_write() Jan Blunck
2007-10-12 16:10 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-13 11:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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