Re: [RESEND] The initmpfs patches.

From: Rob Landley
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 00:07:15 EST


On 07/15/2013 04:01:35 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:06:39 -0500 Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Attached, so you don't have to fish them out of:
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.3/04204.html

Too hard. Especially when I want to reply to a patch. Please resend
as a patch series in the time-honoured fashion?

Ok.

(Balsa is such an incompetent email client I wrote a python script to do this via raw smtp, and I'm always convinced it's going to screw up the send. But I think I've got it debugged now...)

> --- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,14 @@ struct dentry *ramfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
> static struct dentry *rootfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
> int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
> {
> - return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags|MS_NOUSER, data, ramfs_fill_super);
> + static int once;
> +
> + if (once)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> + else
> + once++;
> +
> + return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags, data, ramfs_fill_super);
> }

The patches do this in a couple of places. The treatment of `once' is
obviously racy. Probably it is unlikely to matter in these contexts,
but it does set a poor example. And it's so trivially fixed with, for
example, test_and_set_bit() that I do think it's worth that change.

Fixing in new series. Retesting will probably delay the resend until morning.

Thanks,

Rob--
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