Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:41:22 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 02/52] fs: fix superblock iteration race |
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:35:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:02:14AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> This should actually be on it's way to Linus for .35, shouldn't it? > > > > Yeah, I was waiting for Al to reappear, but I think this is > > probably the nicest way to solve the problem. Linus? > > I'll apply it. We have a couple of oopses listed for the superblock > iterator, and I haven't heard from Al. And the patch looks obviously > fine, whether it's actually the cause of some of the bugs or not.
OK. I only have managed to get it into an infininte loop but I think it would be surely possible to oops it because the next pointer can be uninitialised memory at that point.
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