Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: kernel bad access while booting diskless client

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Hello again,

this looks like a good candidate. Could you please try if it fixes the
problem?

Thanks,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH
> --- Begin Message ---
> This pattern from 2.4 times doesn't work very well anymore :(
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.11-latest/fs/nfs/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.11-latest.orig/fs/nfs/inode.c
> +++ linux-2.6.11-latest/fs/nfs/inode.c
> @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ nfs_init_locked(struct inode *inode, voi
>  #define NFS_LIMIT_READDIRPLUS (8*PAGE_SIZE)
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_ACL
> -static struct inode_operations nfs_special_inode_operations[] = {{
> +static struct inode_operations nfs_special_inode_operations = {
>  	.permission =	nfs_permission,
>  	.getattr =	nfs_getattr,
>  	.setattr =	nfs_setattr,
> @@ -696,9 +696,7 @@ static struct inode_operations nfs_speci
>  	.getxattr =	nfs_getxattr,
>  	.setxattr =	nfs_setxattr,
>  	.removexattr =	nfs_removexattr,
> -}};
> -#else
> -#define nfs_special_inode_operations NULL
> +};
>  #endif  /* CONFIG_NFS_ACL */
>  
>  /*
> @@ -755,7 +753,9 @@ nfs_fhget(struct super_block *sb, struct
>  		} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
>  			inode->i_op = &nfs_symlink_inode_operations;
>  		else {
> -			inode->i_op = nfs_special_inode_operations;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NFS_ACL
> +			inode->i_op = &nfs_special_inode_operations;
> +#endif
>  			init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, fattr->rdev);
>  		}
>  
>
> --- End Message ---