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SubjectRe: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?
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On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 08:59 -0500, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:55 +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.
> >
> > > 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?
>
> Attibutes do not have an owner anymore:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15

This one also fails to apply properly at the exact same place has Ingo's
previously posted patch. Would need to backport his one.

> Kay

- vin


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