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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lost sysctl fix
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080727063521.GA1963@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080727062956.GA24749@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > try_attach() should walk into the matching subdirectory, not the first one...
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> > [and yes, that's what that crap had been]
> 
> does this explain the following crash -tip testing just triggered with 
> latest -git:
> 
> [   12.293289] calling  butterfly_init+0x0/0x14
> [   12.298036] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> [   12.302065] IP: [<c012c169>] __register_sysctl_paths+0x1af/0x253
> [   12.308058] *pdpt = 0000000000b81001 *pde = 0000000000000000 
> [   12.314809] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

your patch fixes it.

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-27  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-27  2:22 2.6.26-mmotm-0724 - linux-next.git loses /proc/sys/fs/quota, breaks disk quotas Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-27  3:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-27  3:43   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-27  3:50     ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-27  4:09     ` Al Viro
2008-07-27  5:17       ` [PATCH] " Al Viro
2008-07-27  5:31         ` [PATCH] lost sysctl fix Al Viro
2008-07-27  6:29           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-27  6:35             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-27  6:31           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-27  5:53         ` [PATCH] Re: 2.6.26-mmotm-0724 - linux-next.git loses /proc/sys/fs/quota, breaks disk quotas Valdis.Kletnieks

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