Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)

Alexander Viro
2001-11-24T07:07:01Z

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> this one looks even better (and it doesn't need to propagate the fix to
> the lowlevel):
>
> --- 2.4.15aa1/fs/super.c.~1~ Fri Nov 23 08:21:01 2001
> +++ 2.4.15aa1/fs/super.c Sat Nov 24 07:58:37 2001
> @@ -470,6 +470,7 @@
> return s;
>
> out_fail:
> + invalidate_inodes(s);

Sigh...
a) grep, please.
b) you are triggering method calls for a superblock after failed
->read_super(). Blindly. Care to audit all filesystems and check that
it is legitimate?