Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756242AbXLMOBb (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:01:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752756AbXLMOBW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:01:22 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:55529 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752699AbXLMOBW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:01:22 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ? From: Kay Sievers To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dhaval Giani , "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , Greg KH , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Balbir Singh , maneesh@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20071213125509.GA28340@elte.hu> References: <20071211182015.GA22339@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071211182528.GA5597@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071211210653.GA6902@elte.hu> <20071212070816.GA31455@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071212134158.GA5547@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071213114336.GA5400@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071213125509.GA28340@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:59:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1197554397.19869.3.camel@lov.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18slasG8VFRqmW9zxCK2UZQr2XZaapcmP5pYA7 ZwVALzg4zDhgVjU+SI65TTRIsU6ljs1KmWDKpECuumwRFzSUoU lVxr/GdBMwtBEV/1WKtCQHURz7C2G44 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 30 On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > Could you please see if the following patch removes the oops due to > > CFS sysfs files? (There might still be the other oops due to the > > floppy sysfs files) > > > > Ingo, could you please add this patch in your CFS backport to 2.6.22 > > and older kernels? > > sure - i've updated the backport patches with this fix. > > > static void user_attr_init(struct subsys_attribute *sa, char *name, int mode) > > { > > + sa->attr.owner = NULL; > > sa->attr.name = name; > > i'm wondering why doesnt this affect 2.6.23 and later? Does sysfs > initialize the owner field to NULL automatically? Attibutes do not have an owner anymore: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 Kay -- 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/