From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, htejun@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maneesh@in.ibm.com,
sandeen@redhat.com, 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, 06 Jun 2007 16:36:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466728D6.30200@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606213543.GS3723@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
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...)
*shrug*
-Eric
> thanks,
> -chris
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 21:40 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 [this message]
2007-06-06 22:05 ` Chris Wright
2007-06-06 22:30 ` Greg KH
2007-05-22 23:17 ` [stable] [PATCH] - fix oops in sysfs_readdir Adrian Bunk
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