Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rc3 autofs crash on my IA64 box

From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 08:14:14 EST


On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:47 +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> Hi.
>
> > I've checked this and this is not the only problem.
> > Also autofs4_ is called with s->s_root NULL in this case.
> >
> > The attached patch ensures that the autofs filesystem is initialized to be
> > catatonic until super block setup is complete which avoids the problem
> > above. It also checks s->s_root before use.
> >
> > Could someone seeing this problem try this patch out please.
>
> Sorry for late response. I was off.
> I tested your patch on my box. It worked well.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I've got a couple of other problems.

In my testing I managed to panic the kernel further on, somewhere in
selinux. The scenario is slightly different though, running autofs
version 5 against a version 4 module. I really can't see why, all the
references look OK. I'm not sure what can be done it either as we're
talking about an older kernel anyway.

My other problem is I can't get my -mm kernel to build atm so I can't
really test further. I'm sure that will change soon.

Ian


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