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From: Tachino Nobuhiro <tachino@open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Tachino Nobuhiro <tachino@open.nm.fujitsu.co.jp>,
	GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] direct IO breaks root filesystem
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:46:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wuzt40l6.wl@nisaaru.dvs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112111742001.18126-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <y9k945x1.wl@nisaaru.dvs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112111742001.18126-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

At Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:46:01 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
> >
> > But my patch fixes another bug. Current /dev/ram* does not return -ENOSPC
> > at the end of device size because generic_file_write() also checks whether
> > mapping->host is a block device. So I think the patch is required.
> 
> I'll agree with your one-liner: it's good practice anyway to initialize
> any fields that could ever be looked at. I actually already applied it to
> my tree, I just want to make sure that people don't apply the other
> patch..
> 
> 		Linus

Thank you.

I think the patch should be applied to 2.4 because "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1"
can cause system hang easily.
Marcelo, please consider applying the patch.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-12  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <w53bsh9ybtn.wl@megaela.fe.dis.titech.ac.jp>
2001-12-10  3:59 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-10  5:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-10 12:39   ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-10 14:40     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-10 17:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-11  9:03     ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-11  9:13       ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-11 11:30       ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-11 17:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-11 17:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-11 18:03         ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-12  0:25       ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-12  0:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-12  0:51         ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-12  1:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-12  3:25             ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-12 16:20               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-12  2:46           ` Tachino Nobuhiro [this message]

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