Re: WARNING: at lib/idr.c:678 idr_find_slowpath+0x97/0xc0()

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The WARN_ON() is just for cases where someone might be doing something
>> crazy with the previous behavior of ignoring high bit.  Maybe I was
>> being overly paranoid and we should just drop it from idr_find().
>
> Can we revert the __lock_timer patch as well then?

I don't know.  Andrew was worried about the type of timer id.  For
inotify, it's okay as the type is always int but it's not a bad idea
to have some form of sanitizing if the type might deviate.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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