From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount namespace is unshared Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:09:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <48C52B29.4020204@fr.ibm.com> <20080909124311.GA10053@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080909124311.GA10053-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:43:11 -0500") Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Cedric Le Goater , Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust , Chuck Lever , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Containers , linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Thanks, Cedric. Eric is probably right about the long-term fix, but > yeah it might take a while to properly wade through the sunrpc and nfs > layers to store the nodename at nfs mount time, and in the meantime this > fixes a real oops. A very esoteric oops that hasn't shown up for two years. Please let's look at this and see what it would take to fix this properly. What are we trying to achieve by reading utsname? Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html