Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:35:43 -0400 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: inodes are not cleared! |
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kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> The alternative is to audit linux/*.
Always a good idea :-)
> Well, I've just done two blind shots to potentially weak directions > and found bugs in both ones for 1 minute. > pipe is broken, nfs is also not clean in some marginal case.
Yes, that's correct. The fs/pipe case wants i_flags = 0, the nfs case needs i_flags = sb->s_flags. I put patches together last night and will send them in to Linus.
The moral: users of get_empty_inode() need to be more careful. (Your morals may vary.)
Regards, Bill
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