Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:36:22 -0500 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [stable] patch sysfs-store-sysfs-inode-nrs-in-s_ino-to-avoid-readdir-oopses.patch queued to -stable tree |
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Chris Wright wrote: > * gregkh@suse.de (gregkh@suse.de) wrote: >> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> >> Subject: sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses >> >> Backport of >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch >> > > I didn't put this into -stable queue because the ida version is not > upstream yet, so I don't think it's appropriate to backport it at this > point in time.
Well, my backport of Tejun's patch explicitly doesn't use ida for just that reason...
It uses a simple counter instead (which may give dup inode numbers, but I think we have that today, and at least this shouldn't oops...)
*shrug*
-Eric
> thanks, > -chris >
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