Re: tmpfs lock error panic with mknod+S_IFMT

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:20:56PM +0100, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
> > While testing some linux binary, i encountered a reproductible lock
> > error when the program issued the following mknod call on a tmpfs
> > mount :
> > 
> >    mknod("dummy", S_IFMT|0666, 0);
> > 
> > 
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/tmpfs_mknod_fix.diff
> 
> Can you try this patch?

This fix the problem ... no more crash.

Thanks.

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Nicolas Joly

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Institut Pasteur, Paris.