Re: 2.1.4[56] reboot bug

Michael Stiller (michael@toyland.ping.de)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 15:48:18 +0200

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> So I think that I know how to reproduce 't<tab><tab>' mysterious
> reboot bug. It showed, that there's rather strange file on path
>
> ls -l tset (2.0.28)
> lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4 Apr 4 16:54 tset -> tset
> under 2.1.46 this command causes reboot.
>
> So there's something wrong with new dcache code. (I thought linus may
> be interested since he's been changing vfs code, or not?)
Hi,

just stumbled into the same problem here.
Please see /usr/src/linux/fs/namei.c, there is a comment around

static struct dentry * do_follow_link(

/*
* This should check "link_count", but doesn't do that yet..
*/

So i guess this is just not finished yet.

-Michael

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> Pavel
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