Hello.
I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to send this stuff, but
the MAINTAINERS file wasn't being very helpful either.
I believe there is a minor bug in the remount code for the shm
filesystem in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. When parsing the mount flags,
the code fails to set default values for unspecified options.
mm/shmem.c: 1026:
unsigned long max_blocks, blocks;
unsigned long max_inodes, inodes;
struct shmem_sb_info *info = &sb->u.shmem_sb;
if (shmem_parse_options (data, NULL, &max_blocks, &max_inodes))
return -EINVAL;
---
If the nr_blocks / nr_inodes options are not specified, the value of
max_(block|inodes) will be undefined.
This would explain the following observed behaviour:
[root@kitty /]# mount -t shm none /mnt
[root@kitty /]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 1981000 1258014 620574 67% /
/dev/hda8 995115 447813 495896 47% /home
/dev/hda1 2557352 1807324 750028 71% /dosc
/dev/hda5 1027856 550192 477664 54% /dosd
/dev/hda6 513776 270480 243296 53% /dose
none 163616 0 163616 0% /mnt
[root@kitty /]# mount -o remount /mnt
[root@kitty /]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 1981000 1258014 620574 67% /
/dev/hda8 995115 447813 495896 47% /home
/dev/hda1 2557352 1807324 750028 71% /dosc
/dev/hda5 1027856 550192 477664 54% /dosd
/dev/hda6 513776 270480 243296 53% /dose
none 17179869096 0 17179869096 0% /mnt
[root@kitty /]# ?
Just to give complete information, ver_linux:
Linux kitty 2.4.5 #1 Tue May 29 20:46:15 CEST 2001 i586 unknown
Gnu C 2.95.2
Gnu make 3.78.1
binutils 2.9.5.0.37
mount 2.10f
modutils 2.4.1
e2fsprogs 1.18
Linux C Library 2.1.3
ldd: version 1.9.11
Procps 2.0.6
Net-tools 1.54
Kbd 0.99
Sh-utils 2.0
Modules Loaded rtc nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat powerswitch \
mad16 ad1848 uart401 sound soundcore ne2k-pci 8390
Bye,
Joris.
Joris van Rantwijk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://deadlock.et.tudelft.nl/~joris/
-
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/
