From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 02:07:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050227010757.GC14236@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16929.6319.149849.305237@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:47:43AM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> on a Suse 9.2 System with Suse Hotplug, the phantom partition was somehow
> recognized as Reiserfs, and then the Hotplug mechanism trying to mount the
> bogus partition as a Reiser Filesystem ended in an Oops...
Always report the oops. It is well-known that mounting garbage may crash
the kernel. Earlier the reply was "don't do that then". Nowadays we have
more layers of software trying to probe and do automatic things, and the
kernel must survive attempts to mount garbage.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-27 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-26 21:35 [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c Andries Brouwer
2005-02-26 22:04 ` Uwe Bonnes
2005-02-26 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26 23:24 ` Uwe Bonnes
2005-02-26 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26 23:53 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-26 22:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-26 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-26 23:40 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-02-26 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-27 0:47 ` Uwe Bonnes
2005-02-27 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-27 14:33 ` Uwe Bonnes
2005-02-27 1:07 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2005-03-01 6:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2005-03-19 21:54 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-03-19 22:28 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
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