Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 09:01:35 EST


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Could you please see if the following patch removes the oops due to
> > CFS sysfs files? (There might still be the other oops due to the
> > floppy sysfs files)
> >
> > Ingo, could you please add this patch in your CFS backport to 2.6.22
> > and older kernels?
>
> sure - i've updated the backport patches with this fix.
>
> > static void user_attr_init(struct subsys_attribute *sa, char *name, int mode)
> > {
> > + sa->attr.owner = NULL;
> > sa->attr.name = name;
>
> i'm wondering why doesnt this affect 2.6.23 and later? Does sysfs
> initialize the owner field to NULL automatically?

Attibutes do not have an owner anymore:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15

Kay

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