Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix the ustat() regression

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:02:19 -0600 (CST) Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Since 2.6.18, the superblock sb->s_root has been a dummy dentry with a
> dummy inode. This breaks ustat(), which actually uses sb->s_root in a
> vfstat() call.
> 
> Fix this by making the s_root a dummy alias to the directory inode that was
> used when creating the superblock.

I already have this in my
things-which-need-to-go-into-2.6.24-via-maintainers queue.


That queue is huge:

i-oat-add-support-for-version-2-of-ioatdma-device.patch
reiserfs-dont-drop-pg_dirty-when-releasing-sub-page-sized-dirty-file.patch
rtc-release-correct-region-in-error-path.patch
rtc-fallback-to-requesting-only-the-ports-we-actually-use.patch
i5000_edac-no-need-to-__stringify-kbuild_basename.patch
serial-only-use-pnp-irq-if-its-valid.patch
sunrpc-xprtrdma-transportc-fix-use-after-free.patch
fix-mm-utilckrealloc.patch
fuse_file_alloc-fix-null-dereferences.patch
tle62x0-driver-stops-ignoring-read-errors.patch
rd-fix-data-corruption-on-memory-pressure.patch
cris-gpio-undo-locks-before-returning.patch
mips-undo-locking-on-error-path-returns.patch
mips-undo-locking-on-error-path-returns-checkpatch-fixes.patch
nfs-fix-the-ustat-regression.patch
proc-simplify-and-correct-proc_flush_task.patch
fix-param_sysfs_builtin-name-length-check.patch
rtc-convert-mutex-to-bitfield.patch
mark-sys_open-sys_read-exports-unused.patch
sysctl-fix-token-ring-procname.patch
gbefb-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch
vmstat-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch
pidns-place-under-config_experimental.patch
pidns-place-under-config_experimental-checkpatch-fixes.patch
__do_irq-does-not-check-irq_disabled-when-irq_per_cpu-is-set.patch
hibernate-fix-lockdep-report-2.patch
smbfs-fix-debug-builds.patch
fix-64kb-blocksize-in-ext3-directories.patch
fix-64kb-blocksize-in-ext3-directories-checkpatch-fixes.patch
uml-fix-spurious-irq-testing.patch
uml-remove-last-include-of-libc-asm-pageh.patch
uml-fix-build-for-config_tcp.patch
uml-fix-build-for-config_printk.patch
markers-fix-warnings.patch
swap-delay-accounting-include-lock_page-delays.patch
file-capabilities-allow-sigcont-within-session-v2.patch
file-capabilities-allow-sigcont-within-session-v2-checkpatch-fixes.patch
file-capabilities-allow-sigcont-within-session-v2-file-capabilities-remove-the-non-matching-uid-special-case-for-kill.patch
feature-removal-schedule-remove-sa_-flags-entry.patch
kernel-taskstatsc-fix-bogus-nlmsg_free.patch
x86-show-cpuinfo-only-for-online-cpus.patch
make-proc-acpi-ac_adapter-dependent-on-acpi_procfs.patch
acpi-ac-update-ac-state-on-resume.patch
keyspan-init-termios-properly.patch
x86-disable-preemption-in-delay_tsc.patch
tty-fix-network-driver-interactions-with-tcget-set-checkpatch-fixes.patch
tty-fix-tty-network-driver-interactions-with-tcget-tcset-calls-x86-fix.patch
x86_64-fix-cpu-hotplug-regression.patch
oprofile-fix-oops-on-x86-32-bit.patch
x86-32-bit-ptrace-emulation-mishandles-6th-arg.patch
net-inet_hashtablesh-needs-vmalloch.patch


Maintainers miss a lot of stuff :(