Re: race in unmount code.

[Daniel Moore <dxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Andi Kleen" writes:

 => The vfsmnt stuff is very new in linux -- it was introduced only a few
 => patchlevels before the XFS kernel branched. So it is entirely possible
 => that the generic code is buggy. Maybe this patch will help:
 => 
 => --- linux/fs/super.c-o      Mon Mar 27 20:31:13 2000
 => +++ linux/fs/super.c        Wed May 10 10:58:32 2000
 => @@ -384,6 +384,8 @@
 =>     if (!buffer) return 0;
 =>     for (tmp = vfsmntlist; tmp && len < PAGE_SIZE - 160;
 =>         tmp = tmp->mnt_next) {
 => +           if (!tmp->mnt_sb || !tmp->mnt_sb->s_root)
 => +                   continue;
 =>             path = d_path(tmp->mnt_sb->s_root, buffer, PAGE_SIZE);
 =>             if (!path)
 =>                     continue;

Thanks Andi, this does the trick. I just had a look at the
2.3.99-pre5 release and the same patch is in there.

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