Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 15:37, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I think you're missing the context. There are bugs in how this filesystem > handles intentionally-corrupted filesystems. That's being reported as > a critical bug because apparently some distributions automount HFS/HFS+ > filesystems presen

Re: [PATCH 1/2] topology: Check for missing CPU devices

2012-01-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I mean to say that we could have no CPU devices after the *second* > patch.  So the first patch is an extra defence against that.  (Though we > could just as well panic if register_cpu() fails at boot time.) I think I'd rather just panic -

Re: [PATCH 1/2] topology: Check for missing CPU devices

2012-01-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> Ok, both of the patches look sane to me, but it would really be nice >> to hear from somebody with the actual affected architectures, and get >>

Re: [PATCH 1/2] topology: Check for missing CPU devices

2012-01-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, both of the patches look sane to me, but it would really be nice to hear from somebody with the actual affected architectures, and get a tested-by. Testing it on hacked-up x86 sounds fine, but doesn't quite have the same kind of "yes, this fixes the actual problem" feel to it. Also, can you c