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SubjectRe: get_sb_single() - do not pass options twice
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 23:28, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Subject: vfs: get_sb_single() - do not pass options twice
>
> Filesystem code usually destroys the option buffer while
> parsing it, which leads to errors when the same buffer is
> passed twice. In case we fill a new superblock with the
> options, do not pass the options again to the remount()
> call.

Ping! Can someone please have a look and comment on that?
Something like this will now be needed for 2.6.33 to silent a warning.

Thanks,
Kay

> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> ---
>  fs/super.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> --- a/fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/super.c
> @@ -900,6 +900,8 @@ int get_sb_single(struct file_system_typ
>                        deactivate_locked_super(s);
>                        return error;
>                }
> +               /* options usually get mangled and can only be parsed once */
> +               data = NULL;
>                s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
>        }
>        do_remount_sb(s, flags, data, 0);
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