From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: pre8 Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:02:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4254082E.1010101@us.ibm.com> References: <20050405213223.GJ9049@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <20050406063240.GC12408@averon.dyndns.org> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050406063240.GC12408@averon.dyndns.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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 > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel >