Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752202Ab3FZPgH (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:36:07 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:52181 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751506Ab3FZPgF (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:36:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20130626153236.GA29455@kroah.com> References: <20130626172446.51f0bd5f@skate> <20130626153236.GA29455@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:36:03 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Jun 26 [ vfs | block | fuse (cpuidle) releated? ] From: Sedat Dilek To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Jens Axboe , linux-fsdevel , Miklos Szeredi , fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Stephen Rothwell , Arnd Bergmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2033 Lines: 56 On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> Dear Sedat Dilek, >> >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:50:55 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> >> > [ TO/CC char-misc folks ] >> > >> > The CULPRIT commit [1] due to my git-bisecting is: >> > >> > commit 585d98e00ba7a5e2abe65f7a1eff631cb612289b >> > "char: misc: assign file->private_data in all cases" >> > >> > After reverting it, my system boots up fine again. >> > >> > Can someone from the char-misc folks look at that? >> >> Ok. My understanding is that the misc device registered by >> fs/fuse/dev.c:fuse_dev_init() makes the assumption that >> file->private_data == NULL when a misc device is opened. But I'm not >> sure to fully understand the code flow of the FUSE filesystem. >> >> And since it doesn't provide its own implementation of the ->open() >> operation, the misc infrastructure was leaving the file->private_data >> defined to NULL before my patch. >> >> With my patch, the file->private_data gets assigned unconditionally >> (regardless of whether the misc driver provides or does not provide a >> ->open() operation) which modifies the unwritten assumption that fuse >> was making about the initial value of file->private_data. I believe the >> assumption made by fuse over the initial value of this variable is a >> bit fragile. >> >> Maybe the FUSE code needs to be slightly adjusted to not make this >> assumption? > > As the FUSE code was working properly before this change, I think this > misc core change needs to be reverted, so I'll go do that in a bit. > Good, sound reasonable. I was not aware that char-misc and fuse code is so interwoven (hope this is the right word). - Sedat - > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/