Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:32:31 +0530 | From | Dhaval Giani <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ? |
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:55:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Could you please see if the following patch removes the oops due to > > CFS sysfs files? (There might still be the other oops due to the > > floppy sysfs files) > > > > Ingo, could you please add this patch in your CFS backport to 2.6.22 > > and older kernels? > > sure - i've updated the backport patches with this fix. >
Thanks!
> > static void user_attr_init(struct subsys_attribute *sa, char *name, int mode) > > { > > + sa->attr.owner = NULL; > > sa->attr.name = name; > > i'm wondering why doesnt this affect 2.6.23 and later? Does sysfs > initialize the owner field to NULL automatically? >
Going through git log, it seems that commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 deemed attribute->owner as unnecessary. I guess that answers the question.
-- regards, Dhaval
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