Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Squashfs-devel] PROBLEM: mount empty SquashFS | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:17:47 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 20:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Phillip Lougher > <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote: [...] > > I discovered the sanity checks mistakenly flagged empty filesystems > > as invalid in January, and added a fix to the mainline kernel, FYI > > the commit is here: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cc37f75a9ffbbfcb1c3297534f293c8284e3c5a6 [...] > I can easily imagine a system that has an optional filesystem mounted, > which may be empty. For such a system, it's a regression. > > So I think this warrants application to the stable 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 branches. > Commit cc37f75a9ffbbfcb1c3297534f293c8284e3c5a6 ("Squashfs: fix > mount time sanity check for corrupted superblock") seems to cherry-pick just > fine on v3.0.42, v3.1.10, and v3.2.28. [...]
I've queued this up for 3.2, thanks.
Ben.
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