From: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:29:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202011929.15349.maciej.rutecki@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz>
On poniedziałek, 30 stycznia 2012 o 22:56:26 Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot boot properly with this commit:
> commit 524b6c5b39b931311dfe5a2f5abae2f5c9731676
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Date: Sun Dec 18 20:09:31 2011 -0800
>
> sysfs: Kill nlink counting.
>
>
> 1) network systemd rule doesn't start network
> 2) sensors complain:
> sensors_init: Kernel interface error
>
> ad 2) look at what it does:
> /* returns !0 if sysfs filesystem was found, 0 otherwise */
> int sensors_init_sysfs(void)
> {
> struct stat statbuf;
>
> snprintf(sensors_sysfs_mount, NAME_MAX, "%s", "/sys");
> if (stat(sensors_sysfs_mount, &statbuf) < 0
>
> || statbuf.st_nlink <= 2) /* Empty directory */
>
> return 0;
>
> return 1;
> }
>
>
> So this looks like it became a part of ABI we cannot break...
>
> A revert of this commit on the top of today's -next fixes the problem.
>
> thanks,
I created a Bugzilla entry at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42712
for your bug report, please add your address to the CC list in there, thanks!
--
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.mrutecki.pl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 21:56 sysfs regression: wrong link counts Jiri Slaby
2012-01-30 22:06 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:27 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:43 ` Al Viro
2012-01-30 22:56 ` Al Viro
2012-01-31 1:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 10:48 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 12:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 19:18 ` Al Viro
2012-02-01 5:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:21 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:31 ` Dave Jones
2012-02-01 22:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-02-01 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-01 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-02 1:22 ` Al Viro
2012-02-02 21:24 ` [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename Al Viro
2012-02-02 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 1:16 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 1:45 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 14:57 ` Chris Mason
2012-02-03 17:08 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 19:34 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 8:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 13:56 ` Al Viro
2012-02-06 17:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 17:11 ` Al Viro
2012-02-07 7:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 22:49 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-03 8:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-03 17:03 ` Al Viro
2012-02-04 7:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-05 13:30 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 16:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-05 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-08 22:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Maintain usable nlink directory counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: Remove SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED and use sd->s_nlink == 0 instead Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-09 2:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 3:45 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 10:41 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 10:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:13 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:17 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:58 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 14:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:40 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 14:55 ` Greg KH
2012-02-04 2:14 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-06 20:03 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-08 3:50 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 6:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 10:57 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 20:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 20:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08 23:48 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 1:32 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 18:29 ` Maciej Rutecki [this message]
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