Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265825AbUFXWr6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:47:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265812AbUFXWoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:44:39 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([216.162.42.101]:436 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265811AbUFXWoR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:44:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:41:21 -0400 From: David Eger To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: generic_readlink() - patch WFM Message-ID: <20040624224120.GA12641@havoc.gtf.org> References: <1088111809.4160.1.camel@pegasus> <20040624212417.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040624212417.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 568 Lines: 12 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:24:17PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > I got this oops on boot with the latest Bitkeeper snapshot of 2.6.7 > > Memory corruption in generic_readlink(), now that we use nd->depth instead > of current->link_count. Fix follows: what a nasty bug. your patch works for me. - 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/