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Subjectpossible bug in VFS ?
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When i tried bestcrypt (a crypto-fs) with the new 2.4.12 kernel, i got a
ooops when mounting a device. The oops was in this line:

(in bcrypt-0.8-6/mod/bc_dev24.c)

root = current->fs->rootmnt;
list_for_each(ptr, &root->mnt_list) {
mnt = list_entry(ptr, struct vfsmount, mnt_list);
sb = mnt ? mnt->mnt_sb : NULL;
if (NULL != sb && dev == sb->s_dev) <============
mntget(mnt);
}

The oops was a pointer dereference to 0x9. I added some printk's to see the
values of the pointers. I did see that in the last 'struct vfsmount' linked
inside root->mnt_list, the mnt_sb field is '0x1', so when it tries to access
sb->sb_dev it dereferences a pointer to 0x9. The field mnt_devname was NULL.

¿Is this a bug in the kernel or a bug in bestcrypt?

Cheers,

- Doing

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