Re: autofs: use __kernel_write() for the autofs pipe writing causes regression in -next was Re: 5.9.0-next-20201015: autofs oops in update-binfmts

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Oct 18 2020 - 03:23:08 EST


On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 11:05:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:02 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Bad Linus!
>
> Christ people.
>
> The bug is in linux-next, not in mainline. I've told the people
> involved already over a week ago.
>
> I can't do anything about linux-next being broken and people not fixing it.

While it took longer than I would have preferred, Al has commited the
fix to his for-next tree a few days ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=4c207ef48269377236cd38979197c5e1631c8c16