Re: tmpfs lock error panic with mknod+S_IFMT

["J. Hannken-Illjes" <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>]

On 26 May 2014, at 16:25, Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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);

You try to create a bad sector on tmpfs -- see do_sys_mknodat() for
details.  More analysis when cvs.netbsd.org is back again.

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