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SubjectRe: [RESEND] The initmpfs patches.
On 07/15/2013 04:01:35 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:06:39 -0500 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Attached, so you don't have to fish them out of:
> >
> > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.3/04204.html
>
> Too hard. Especially when I want to reply to a patch. Please resend
> as a patch series in the time-honoured fashion?

Ok.

(Balsa is such an incompetent email client I wrote a python script to
do this via raw smtp, and I'm always convinced it's going to screw up
the send. But I think I've got it debugged now...)

> > --- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
> > @@ -247,7 +247,14 @@ struct dentry *ramfs_mount(struct
> file_system_type *fs_type,
> > static struct dentry *rootfs_mount(struct file_system_type
> *fs_type,
> > int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
> > {
> > - return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags|MS_NOUSER, data,
> ramfs_fill_super);
> > + static int once;
> > +
> > + if (once)
> > + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> > + else
> > + once++;
> > +
> > + return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags, data, ramfs_fill_super);
> > }
>
> The patches do this in a couple of places. The treatment of `once' is
> obviously racy. Probably it is unlikely to matter in these contexts,
> but it does set a poor example. And it's so trivially fixed with, for
> example, test_and_set_bit() that I do think it's worth that change.

Fixing in new series. Retesting will probably delay the resend until
morning.

Thanks,

Rob

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