From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jdike@addtoit.com,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, toralf.foerster@gmx.de,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] hostfs: fix UML crash
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:27:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ec4162fd4bfc651204532a22ac87a79@radon2.swed.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019011125.GA3905@lst.de>
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:11:25 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 01:02:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Is there any reason for hostfs to be playing with the f_spare field at all?
>
> No, there is no reason at all. do_statfs is only called by
> hostfs_statfs, which is the hostfs implementation of ->statfs. zeroing
> of the spare fields is done by common code (vfs_statfs_native).
Thanks!
> Can you submit a patch to just remove the spare_out argument to do_statfs?
Sure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 16:36 [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/1] hostfs: fix UML crash Richard Weinberger
2010-10-18 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-18 18:53 ` Richard Weinberger
2010-10-18 20:02 ` [uml-devel] " Andrew Morton
2010-10-19 1:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19 10:27 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2010-10-18 19:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-10-18 19:31 ` Richard Weinberger
2010-10-18 19:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-10-18 20:03 ` Richard Weinberger
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