Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > > This one also fails to apply properly at the exact same place 
> > > > has Ingo's previously posted patch.  Would need to backport his 
> > > > one.
> > > 
> > > It depends on a completely reworked sysfs logic, I don't think it 
> > > makes any sense to backport that.
> > 
> > well, if it fixes a live bug in a still supported stable kernel 
> > release...
> > 
> > Vincent, could you try to just get rid of all actual uses of 
> > se->attr.owner, within fs/sysfs/*.c? Something like the patch below. 
> > (totally untested - might be fatally broken as well)
> 
> How can you think that this is not needed? You can not remove it with 
> sysfs you are patching. Hope this explains it: 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ab66088c855eca68513bdd7442a426c4b374ced

yeah - as i said it might be fatally broken (in fact it is). Do we 
understand why Vincent got the crashes with vanilla 2.6.22.14 ?

	Ingo
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