Re: Where is the official 2.0.36? Is it out yet?

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
30 Sep 1998 15:44:17 +0200

jauderho@transmeta.com (Jauder Ho) writes:

>look at http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/alan.shtml

>Alan has submitted it to Linus. There isn't an official 36 yet. I just
>checked.

.12 is at least one small patch missing:

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>From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
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>Subject: Yet another autofs patch
>Date: 31 Jan 1998 07:44:21 +0100
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Okay, I think I have finally found and eliminated the hung autofs
problem (knock on wood.) Since this problem is very hard to
reproduce, I can't say for sure that it's been resolved, but this is
definitely a bug and fixing it can't hurt.

This bug probably *does* exist in the 2.0.x series of kernels (and
2.1.x for x < 43, which uses the 2.0.x code) but should be much more
harmless on those systems. However, applying this patch to those
kernels probably should work, too.

Here is the patch; it will hopefully be included in 2.1.85 as well.

-hpa

--- stock/linux-2.1.84/fs/autofs/dirhash.c Mon Jul 7 12:45:57 1997
+++ linux-2.1.84-smp/fs/autofs/dirhash.c Fri Jan 30 22:10:29 1998
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
*
* linux/fs/autofs/dirhash.c
*
- * Copyright 1997 Transmeta Corporation -- All Rights Reserved
+ * Copyright 1997-1998 Transmeta Corporation -- All Rights Reserved
*
* This file is part of the Linux kernel and is made available under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, or at your
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@
ent->next = *dhnp;
ent->back = dhnp;
*dhnp = ent;
+ if ( ent->next )
+ ent->next->back = &(ent->next);
}

void autofs_hash_delete(struct autofs_dir_ent *ent)
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Yes, I sent it to Alan and hpa for inclusion into final 2.0.36

Ciao
Henning

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Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen --             hps@tanstaafl.de
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