Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758504AbZF2UCB (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:02:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753594AbZF2UBy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:54 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:34549 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755025AbZF2UBx (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:53 -0400 Subject: [GIT PULL] notification tree - fsnotify assumes incorrectly positive parent dentry From: Eric Paris To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1246305712.754.292.camel@dhcp235-23.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 26 Linus please consider pulling from the notification tree. There is one patch in the tree which should fix an issue in which fsnotify assumed that dentry->d_parent->d_inode != NULL. This turns out to be false for spufs and causes a panic. -Eric The following changes since commit 52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.6 are available in the git repository at: git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git for-linus Jeremy Kerr (1): fs: allow d_instantiate to be called with negative parent dentry include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- 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/