Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ? | From | Vincent Fortier <> | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:02:00 +0000 |
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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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