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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Parisc List <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forgotten refcount on sysctl root table
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:15:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220544943.3276.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080904160557.GT28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:05 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll
> blow up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl
> tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

That fixes the problem,

Thanks,

James



      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 15:04 panic on boot with kernel/sysctl.c changes in 2.6.27-rc5 James Bottomley
2008-09-04 16:05 ` [PATCH] forgotten refcount on sysctl root table Al Viro
2008-09-04 16:15   ` James Bottomley [this message]

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