Re: [stable] runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 has returned?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:00:57PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 11:43 AM, Christian Samsel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to build a minimal kernel as Xen DomU, but stumbled across
> > 
> > [    0.029457] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
> > [    0.029559] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> > [    0.029973] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
> > [    0.030662] msgmni has been set to 243
> > [    0.099708] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> > [    0.100482] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> > [    0.101851] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> > [    0.102534] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> > [    0.106311] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> > (hangs)
> > 
> > after reading http://lwn.net/Articles/310472/ and comparing the output after 
> > msgmni of a working kernel on a other machine i found the config option change 
> > which breaks it:
> 
> Hi, you may want this:
> 31d1d48e199e99077fb30f6fb9a793be7bec756f
> 
> Adding stable to consider it for inclusion in .35 stable too.

Now queued up for the next .35-stable kernel release.

thanks,

greg k-h