Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760059AbXIXPpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758635AbXIXPph (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:37 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:46104 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756235AbXIXPpg (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:36 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 - 'touch' command causes Oops. From: Dave Hansen To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3982.1190638701@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20070924021716.9bfe7dfb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <3339.1190630150@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070924120508.GA15648@infradead.org> <3982.1190638701@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:45:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1190648733.26982.227.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 17 On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:58 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > do_times passes an unitialized vfsmount into mnt_want_write. Here's > > the quick fix (untested), but the right fix is to restructure the complete > > mess do_utimes is (never let a libc developer write your kernel code.. :)): > > Close - it still blew up, as one reference to nd.mnt remained. Fixed patch > is appended - system boots all the way with this applied. Any idea which fs and distro this was? I'd like to add it to my tests. -- Dave - 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/