On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This one also fails to apply properly at the exact same place > > > > > has Ingo's previously posted patch. Would need to backport his > > > > > one. > > > > > > > > It depends on a completely reworked sysfs logic, I don't think it > > > > makes any sense to backport that. > > > > > > well, if it fixes a live bug in a still supported stable kernel > > > release... > > > > > > Vincent, could you try to just get rid of all actual uses of > > > se->attr.owner, within fs/sysfs/*.c? Something like the patch below. > > > (totally untested - might be fatally broken as well) > > > > How can you think that this is not needed? You can not remove it with > > sysfs you are patching. Hope this explains it: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ab66088c855eca68513bdd7442a426c4b374ced > > yeah - as i said it might be fatally broken (in fact it is). Do we > understand why Vincent got the crashes with vanilla 2.6.22.14 ?
No, and I can't seem to duplicate them here at all. Does anyone have a test case for this that I can work on trying to duplicate? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
