Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:13:35 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:27:37AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs
> is not mounted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>

That makes no sense at all.  pipe_mnt is not created by userland
mount; it's created by init_pipe_fs() and we'd bloody better
have it done before any applications get a chance to run.

Please, explain how the hell did you manage to get a perverted
config where that is not true.  In the meanwhile the patch is
NAKed.
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