Re: [PATCH] cgroup: move a check to parse_cgroupfs_options()

[Li Zefan]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> And where did this one go?
>>
>> The other one I removed sets opts->new_root to NULL, and this one detects
>> the NULL ptr:
>>
>> if (!opts->subsys_bits && !opts->none)
>>        return NULL;
>> ...
>> opts->new_root = NULL;
>> ...
>> if (!opts->new_root)
>>        return -EINVAL;
>>
>> shortcut to:
>>
>> if (!opts->subsys_bits && !opts->none)
>>        return -EINVAL;
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. Maybe explaining it briefly in the commit
> message would be nice?
> 

I recalled why we have this check in this place, that is to allow mounting
by hierarchy name, but it has been broken for a long time. I'll send a
fix with detailed changelog.
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