Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261339AbVB0BIL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:08:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261340AbVB0BIL (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:08:11 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:24815 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261339AbVB0BII (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:08:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 02:07:57 +0100 From: Andries Brouwer To: Uwe Bonnes Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andries Brouwer , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c Message-ID: <20050227010757.GC14236@apps.cwi.nl> References: <20050226213459.GA21137@apps.cwi.nl> <16928.62091.346922.744462@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20050226225203.GA25217@apps.cwi.nl> <20050226234053.GA14236@apps.cwi.nl> <16929.6319.149849.305237@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16929.6319.149849.305237@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 17 On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:47:43AM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > on a Suse 9.2 System with Suse Hotplug, the phantom partition was somehow > recognized as Reiserfs, and then the Hotplug mechanism trying to mount the > bogus partition as a Reiser Filesystem ended in an Oops... Always report the oops. It is well-known that mounting garbage may crash the kernel. Earlier the reply was "don't do that then". Nowadays we have more layers of software trying to probe and do automatic things, and the kernel must survive attempts to mount garbage. Andries - 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/