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Subject: Re: [PATCH] forgotten refcount on sysctl root table
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:05 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll
> blow up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl
> tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

That fixes the problem,

Thanks,

James