Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.1.98 Netscape hangs and more | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:01:02 +0200 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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abel@bfr.co.il said: > I was developing a toy filesystem module for 2.1.96 and was quite > surprised to notice, that if I register a filesystem with a NULL > read_super method and then I try to mount something using this FS, I > get a kernel oops on NULL dereferencing. The next time I try to mount, > the mount command hangs hard, so I cannot kill it at all.
> Shouldn't there be some kind of sanity check? If yes, I'll submit a > patch...
Yes, there should, IMHO. I made a similar patch at one point, but it'll be fairly out of date now, and it's simple enough to make, so I'll let you do it again :)
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