Re: fs: gpf in simple_setattr

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Can you try whether the following patch fixes the issue for you?

Good catch, Honza.

I hate how fragile that code ends up being and would love to see that
"anon_inode_inode" allocation and assignment just once in
anon_inode_init(), but considering that it wants the superblock
pointer, I suspect it's not cleanly doable. Oh well. Your patch looks
like it should make the issue moot, I just dread this happening again
due to the layout of the code.

Will apply the patch,

             Linus
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