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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 14:53:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190903135354.GI1131@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903135024.GA8274@infradead.org>

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:50:24AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

There's much nastier situation than "new upstream kernel released,
need to rebuild" - it's bisect in mainline trying to locate something...

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-03 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-03  4:21 "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic Qian Cai
2019-09-03  5:22 ` Dexuan-Linux Cui
2019-09-03  5:50   ` Dexuan Cui
2019-09-03  6:00     ` Dexuan Cui
2019-09-03  8:13 ` Naresh Kamboju
2019-09-03  9:08   ` Sachin Sant
2019-09-03 12:37 ` Al Viro
2019-09-03 13:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-03 13:48     ` Al Viro
2019-09-03 13:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-03 13:53         ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-09-03 15:39           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-03 17:56             ` Al Viro
2019-09-04 12:39               ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-05  9:13                 ` Naresh Kamboju
2019-09-05 16:46                   ` Al Viro
2019-09-05 12:17               ` Kevin Easton
2019-09-03 21:30         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-09-03 13:31   ` Al Viro
2019-09-03 13:52     ` Naresh Kamboju

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