From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755455AbYIIPPO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:15:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754012AbYIIPPA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:15:00 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:57659 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753724AbYIIPO6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:14:58 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Cedric Le Goater , Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust , Chuck Lever , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Containers , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org References: <48C52B29.4020204@fr.ibm.com> <20080909124311.GA10053@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:09:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080909124311.GA10053@us.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:43:11 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=24.130.11.59;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.130.11.59 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 128 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;"Serge E. Hallyn" X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4655] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount namespace is unshared X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Thanks, Cedric. Eric is probably right about the long-term fix, but > yeah it might take a while to properly wade through the sunrpc and nfs > layers to store the nodename at nfs mount time, and in the meantime this > fixes a real oops. A very esoteric oops that hasn't shown up for two years. Please let's look at this and see what it would take to fix this properly. What are we trying to achieve by reading utsname? Eric