From: Mike Christie <mikenc@us.ibm.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: pre8
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:02:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4254082E.1010101@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050406063240.GC12408@averon.dyndns.org>
Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:32:23PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>
>>I appear to have almost succeeded in squeezing 0.4.4-pre8 into
>>RHEL4 U1, but I doubt I'll be allowed any more updates now except
>>for severe bugs.
>>
>
> Just to let you you know what I think is still needed before 0.4.4 :
>
> o memory allocation error paths audit (mostly done in pre9)
The pathcheckers use sgio, right? The block layer sg io code does some
allocations with GFP_KERNEL (bio_copy_user and bio_map_user for
example), so if you are relying on that path for failback I think you
will be in trouble.
> o don't loose events in multipathd
> o /dev/shm/cache has the same security problems you spotted in /tmp
>
> I guess this last item will help justify your upgrading to 0.4.4
>
> Regards,
> cvaroqui
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 21:32 pre8 Alasdair G Kergon
2005-04-06 6:32 ` pre8 Christophe Varoqui
2005-04-06 16:02 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2005-04-06 18:40 ` pre8 christophe varoqui
2005-04-07 7:30 ` pre8 Mike Christie
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