Re: 2.1.98 Netscape hangs and more

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:01:02 +0200

abel@bfr.co.il said:
> I was developing a toy filesystem module for 2.1.96 and was quite
> surprised to notice, that if I register a filesystem with a NULL
> read_super method and then I try to mount something using this FS, I
> get a kernel oops on NULL dereferencing. The next time I try to mount,
> the mount command hangs hard, so I cannot kill it at all.

> Shouldn't there be some kind of sanity check? If yes, I'll submit a
> patch...

Yes, there should, IMHO. I made a similar patch at one point, but it'll be
fairly out of date now, and it's simple enough to make, so I'll let you do it
again :)

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