Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:09:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount namespace is unshared |
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"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Thanks, Cedric. Eric is probably right about the long-term fix, but > yeah it might take a while to properly wade through the sunrpc and nfs > layers to store the nodename at nfs mount time, and in the meantime this > fixes a real oops.
A very esoteric oops that hasn't shown up for two years. Please let's look at this and see what it would take to fix this properly.
What are we trying to achieve by reading utsname?
Eric
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