Re: isofs oops - d_splice_alias+0x1f (2.6.24-rc5-mm1)

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 04:46:18 EST


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:31:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:10:33 +0000 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > which would not manage to return ERR_PTR(-EIO), no matter what - it would
> > die on access to inode->i_state. I don't have -mm tree at hand, check if
> > there's anything affected in these areas. Perhaps somebody tried to pass
> > error values from isofs_iget() and forgot to update callers?
>
> Yep. Unlike 2.6.24-rc5-mm1, 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 has
>
> iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2.patch
> iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2-update.patch
>
> so hopefully this was all fixed.

Nope; missed by both; fix (and fix to fix) had been posted, but IMO it's
better to replace the entire sorry pile with new variant of patch dhowells
had posted - it has all fixes folded in.
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