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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Myklebust,
	Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
	Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>,
	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
	"maintainer:CODA FILE SYSTEM" <coda@cs.cmu.edu>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>,
	Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu,
	jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fix d_revalidate oopsen on NFS exports
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:54:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24960.1322643283@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111130071319.GA16711@onthe.net.au>

Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au> wrote:

> To avoid other people further wasting their and your time on
> exactly the same thing future, how something like the following
> patch, based on your comment in:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/40370
> 
> ...and, if that's acceptable, is it worthwhile doing for the
> other file systems which are likewise currently vulnerable when
> abused by broken layered file systems?

Also, this may get fixed by Al's atomic open patches - but obviously it hasn't
been yet...

> Don't oops when abused by broken layered file systems
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

It's also worth printing a message - this *is* a kernel bug of some description
if it happens.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21  7:36 [PATCH 1/1] fix d_revalidate oopsen on NFS exports Chris Dunlop
2011-11-29  8:25 ` Chris Dunlop
2011-11-29 11:58   ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-11-30  7:13     ` Chris Dunlop
2011-11-30  8:54     ` David Howells [this message]
2011-12-01  0:47       ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-01  2:22         ` Dave Kleikamp
2011-12-01  3:33           ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-01  3:53             ` Dave Kleikamp
2011-12-01  5:32               ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-01  5:34         ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-01  6:31         ` Tyler Hicks
2011-12-01  7:29           ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-06 11:43             ` Jacek Luczak
2011-12-01  6:50   ` Tyler Hicks
2011-12-01  7:23     ` Chris Dunlop
2011-12-01  8:02     ` Tyler Hicks

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