Re: Lock Directory failure

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > [PATCH next] vfs: initialize m_list to fix crash in mnt_set_mountpoint
> > 
> > Fix mnt_set_mountpoint() crash: new_mountpoint() must initialize m_list.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I assume that this is a fix for commit 89f7ca1af15b ("vfs: Keep a list
> of mounts on a mount point") that is currently i the vfs tree.  I will
> apply this patch as a fix up for the vfs tree in linux-next today.

Yes, that's it: thanks a lot, Stephen, that will help everybody.

I should acknowledge that Thierry Reding posted the same fix (a few
lines away) before mine, but I only came across his later in the day.

Hugh
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