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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	sukadev@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jbacik@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for singleandmultiple-instancemounts
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:46:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A08AAE0.6030300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511223718.GA18528@us.ibm.com>

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> ...
> 
>> >From 2f7746f4df78ff57125c4714f0cd64e739ccf804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:11:11 -0700
>> Subject: [PATCH] devpts: Correctly set default options
>>
>> devpts_get_sb() calls memset(0) to clear mount options and calls
>> parse_mount_options() if user specified any mount options. The memset(0) is
>> bogus since the 'mode' and 'ptmxmode' options are non-zero by default.
>> parse_mount_options() restores options to default anyway and can properly deal
>> with NULL mount options.
>>
>> So in devpts_get_sb() remove memset(0) and call parse_mount_options() even for
>> NULL mount options.
>>
>> Bug reported by Eric Paris: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/7/448.
> 
> Would you almost say... Reported-by: ?  :)
>> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@us.ibm.com)
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 18:08 [PATCH 0/5][v2] Simplify devpts code Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:10 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:17   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:11 ` [v3][PATCH 2/5] Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:11 ` [v3][PATCH 3/5] Move common mknod_ptmx() calls into caller Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:12 ` [v3][PATCH 4/5] Remove get_init_pts_sb() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:12 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 20:35   ` Eric Paris
2009-05-07 21:24     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 22:33       ` Eric Paris
2009-05-07 23:18         ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single and multiple-instancemounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 23:21           ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single andmultiple-instancemounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-08 13:53             ` Peter Staubach
2009-05-09  3:17             ` Marc Dionne
2009-05-11 22:15               ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-11 22:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-11 22:37                 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for singleandmultiple-instancemounts Serge E. Hallyn
2009-05-11 22:46                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-11 22:40                 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single andmultiple-instancemounts Andrew Morton
2009-05-11 23:09                   ` Eric Paris
2009-05-11 23:00                 ` Marc Dionne
2009-03-07 18:14 ` [v3][PATCH 2/5] Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:16 ` [v3][PATCH 1/5] Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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