Re: Remove easily user-triggerable BUG from generic_setlease

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This can be trivially triggered from userspace by passing in something unexpected.

Argh. It looks like it would be harmless (apart from the noise),
except we hold file_lock_lock. Which turns the BUG_ON() into not just
"noise and kill the process", but "noise and kill the process and
leave a nasty lock held".

This seems to go back to 3.2, so stable should be cc'd, no?

               Linus
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