Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?

[Ingo Molnar]

* 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?

	Ingo
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