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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	sandeen@redhat.com, htejun@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maneesh@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] patch sysfs-store-sysfs-inode-nrs-in-s_ino-to-avoid-readdir-oopses.patch queued to -stable tree
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:30:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606223031.GA16147@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466728D6.30200@sandeen.net>

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:36:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
> > * gregkh@suse.de (gregkh@suse.de) wrote:
> >> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
> >> Subject: sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses
> >>
> >> Backport of
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch
> >>
> > 
> > I didn't put this into -stable queue because the ida version is not
> > upstream yet, so I don't think it's appropriate to backport it at this
> > point in time.
> 
> Well, my backport of Tejun's patch explicitly doesn't use ida for just
> that reason...
> 
> It uses a simple counter instead (which may give dup inode numbers, but
> I think we have that today, and at least this shouldn't oops...)

Ok, I'll pull it out as the number of people really seeing this in the
wild is so small that it's not worth it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21 18:11 [stable] [PATCH] - fix oops in sysfs_readdir Eric Sandeen
2007-05-21 18:21 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-21 19:02 ` [stable] " Eric Sandeen
2007-05-21 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22  0:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-05-22  0:54     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22  1:11       ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-22  2:32     ` [stable] [PATCH] - store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses Eric Sandeen
2007-06-06 19:49       ` patch sysfs-store-sysfs-inode-nrs-in-s_ino-to-avoid-readdir-oopses.patch queued to -stable tree gregkh
2007-06-06 21:35         ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2007-06-06 21:36           ` Eric Sandeen
2007-06-06 22:05             ` Chris Wright
2007-06-06 22:30             ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-05-22 23:17 ` [stable] [PATCH] - fix oops in sysfs_readdir Adrian Bunk

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