John Groves <John@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Secondly, I've built the GIT kernel with your nfs+fscache-42 patches applied
> (all went in cleanly).
There's now a -43 with a bug fix in it for NFSv4 caching.
> I'm running this kernel on an otherwise clean Fedora 10 system. fscache and
> cachefiles modules load cleanly, but I can't get cachefilesd to run. If I
> "yum install cachefilesd", I get version 0.7-5, and it complains that
> /proc/fs/cachefiles is missing.
You need to use cachefilesd-0.9. The way I had cachefilesd talking to the
kernel in the earlier versions was rejected by the upstream people.
> If I build cachefilesd-0.9, I a kernel BUG. The relevant lines from
> /var/log/messages are attached.
I submitted a patch for this and Linus has applied it to the upstream tree:
commit 43529c97122f2c851126447963eedcb8cba74fbe
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 9 16:13:46 2009 +0000
CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel_cred()
The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised
before get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them. They should be
copied from the old credentials.
Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David
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