Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751465AbWANOFc (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:05:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751526AbWANOFc (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:05:32 -0500 Received: from [62.38.115.213] ([62.38.115.213]:60565 "EHLO pfn3.pefnos") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465AbWANOFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:05:31 -0500 From: "P. Christeas" To: Al Viro Subject: Re: Regression in Autofs, 2.6.15-git Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:05:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Andrew Morton , hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net References: <200601140217.56724.p_christ@hol.gr> <20060114051737.6e49dffe.akpm@osdl.org> <20060114140122.GK27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060114140122.GK27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601141605.12355.p_christ@hol.gr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 16 On Saturday 14 January 2006 4:01 pm, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:17:37AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > You oopsed accessing 0x00000030, and offsetof(super_block, s_flags) is > > 0x30. So autofs4 has passed in a dentry which has a NULL > > dentry->d_inode->i_sb and the new code didn't expect that. > > It's not just new code... inode->i_sb should _never_ be NULL, period. > We set it immediately after memory had been allocated by alloc_inode() > and never modify afterwards, let alone reset to NULL. Andrew's fix didn't work, so I'm seeking it further.. - 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/