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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:40:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457D27A2.2050309@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061211091335.GA4587@ftp.linux.org.uk>

Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:27:37AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs
>> is not mounted.
[]
> That makes no sense at all.  pipe_mnt is not created by userland
> mount; it's created by init_pipe_fs() and we'd bloody better
> have it done before any applications get a chance to run.
> 
> Please, explain how the hell did you manage to get a perverted
> config where that is not true.  In the meanwhile the patch is
> NAKed.

See for example http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116510390600001&r=1&w=2

Thanks.

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11  8:27 [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11  8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11  9:13   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11  9:21     ` Al Viro
2006-12-11  9:25       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11  9:33         ` Al Viro
2006-12-11  9:47           ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:03             ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:17               ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:22                 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:34                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:47                     ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:57                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-11 10:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:45                   ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:01                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:12                       ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12  0:33                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12  2:08                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12  2:17                         ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-12-12  2:23                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 10:52                 ` [PATCH] get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 13:50                   ` [PATCH] Optimize calc_load() Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 19:04                     ` [PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operations Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11  9:13 ` [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Al Viro
2006-12-11  9:40   ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-12-11 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 12:20   ` Michael Tokarev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-11  9:33 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 10:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 10:52   ` Al Viro

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