On May 20, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Niklos, I forgot to mention that I had to apply a small fix to a VFS >> bug in fs/namei.c:1362, where a mix of symlinks and renames, using >> racer, triggers an BUG_ON at the VFS layer (very reproducible). >> Without this fix, racer oopses in the VFS well before it gets to >> trigger overlayfs bugs. It's a pity 2.6.39 was released with this >> very reproducible *VFS* level bug (doesn't anyone run racer+fsx+ltp >> before releasing a new kernel?) >> >> Anyway, here's the small patch here. Clearly viro/hch need to review >> this "fix" b/c I'm not sure it's really the right one > > Patch looks good to me. > > Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> > > If you've got a patch fixing a serious bug, you'd better send it to > Linus and Andrew (as well as the VFS maintainers), where it'll get more > prompt evaluation. > > You can still do that, also adding "CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx" to the SOB > block in the patch so that the fix quickly makes it into the 2.6.39 > stable series. > > Thanks, > Miklos Thanks. I'll do that. Erez. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
