From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:52:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:52:36 -0400 Received: from duba06h06-0.dplanet.ch ([212.35.36.67]:30984 "EHLO duba06h06-0.dplanet.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:52:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3B993207.787B0D5@dplanet.ch> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 22:45:59 +0200 From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Gooch CC: Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OOPS[devfs]: reproducible in vfs_follow_link 2.4.9,2.4.10-pre4 In-Reply-To: <3B97744E.7020007@dplanet.ch> <200109061941.f86Jfak01921@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Gooch wrote: > > Alexander Viro writes: > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > Since yesterdey, every time I run a 2.4.9 or 2.4.10pre-4 without the > > > "devfs=nomount" I > > > have two oops + /usr, /home /boot not mounted (all (also /): ext2). > > > > Don't use devfs. One of the known bugs - devfs passes a string > > to vfs_follow_link() and doesn't care to preserve it until > > vfs_follow_link() is done. > > > If people could test the latest devfs patch, that would be really > helpful. Linus isn't applying it because he's concerned that the many > SD support may break something. Even if you don't have many SD's, > please apply the patch and send a message to the list (and Cc: me) > stating whether or not your system still works. > No, your patch didn't work. I have still the oops. I investigates, and the oops come in the mountall script (in init.d), when running: mount -avt nonfs,nosmbfs. (I noticed thet at this point kernel load floppy modules, but when I removed also the floppy module, the oops reappers.) Note: only the first time I run the script the kernel oops, thus on normal boot sequence debian would not mount my partitions :-(. giacomo