Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic

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To: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 06:50:24 -0700
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20190903134832.GH1131@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
User-agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13)

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Not sure what would be the best way to do it...  I don't mind breaking
> the out-of-tree modules, whatever their license is; what I would rather
> avoid is _quiet_ breaking of such.

Any out of tree module running against an upstream kernel will need
a recompile for a new version anyway.  So I would not worry about it
at all.

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