Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot panic

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 09:53:58 EST


On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:50:24AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Not sure what would be the best way to do it... I don't mind breaking
> > the out-of-tree modules, whatever their license is; what I would rather
> > avoid is _quiet_ breaking of such.
>
> Any out of tree module running against an upstream kernel will need
> a recompile for a new version anyway. So I would not worry about it
> at all.

There's much nastier situation than "new upstream kernel released,
need to rebuild" - it's bisect in mainline trying to locate something...