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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mainline boot failures I: qemu
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:37:31 -0700
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Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:02:10PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> FYI
>>
>> I see lots of boot failures on various setups with current mainline
>> (git8, b1721d0da266b4af8cb4419473b4ca36206ab200). Unfortunately
>> they are all different.
>
> FWIW, I've reconstructed what had happened:
 > ...

When I bisected down to a commit with your name on it I was quite upset.
Only hallucinations or a rent in the fabric of space-time could explain
what my eyes were telling me ;o)

> -	struct files_struct *copy;
> +	struct files_struct *copy = NULL;

This patch works for me, thanks.