Re: [git pull] gadgetfs fixes

[Alexander Holler]

Am 15.03.2015 um 09:31 schrieb Alexander Holler:
> Am 15.03.2015 um 09:17 schrieb Al Viro:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:35:20AM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
> >
> > > > Umm...  If I'm not misparsing what you said, you are talking about the
> > >
> > > Glücklicherweise nicht. Vielleicht sollten wir es zur Abwechslung mal
> > > mit meiner bevorzugten Sprache versuchen.
> >
> > Good.  I'll probably abstain from trying to mangle it, though.
> >
> > Another question, if you don't mind - does that series (i.e. what's
> > currently
> > in Linus' tree) fix the module refcount issues you'd been seeing?  I
> > agree
> > with your analysis of likely cause (->f_op reassignments with different
> > ->owner before and after) and these patches should have eliminated
> > that, but
> > confirmation would be nice...
>
> I haven't tried to apply the whole series to the 3.19.1 which I'm
> currently using. As mentioned before, something (a single patch I've
> tried before) didn't apply cleanly which means I need to have a deeper
> look at the stuff. E.g. I've just learned (through another problem),
> that (my version of) glibc still doesn't use the aio-syscalls the kernel
> provides (and instead uses pread/pwrite).
>
> I will look if I find the time today.

Also it's already merged, looks good. Please just don't forget to add that

value = -ENOMEM;

if commit f01d35a1 goes down the road without the following patches.

Thanks,

Alexander Holler


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