[PATCH] nfs: BUG_ON in nfs_follow_mountpoint

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 12:48:41 Steve Dickson wrote:
> Here is a patch that was posted a while back on lkml that does
> indeed stop a OOPS.... I notice that is not in the latest rawhide
> kernel... We might want to think about taking this one early due
> to the obvious...

The patch comments mention Fedora 8... Do we need/want this for the F8 and F9 
kernels as well?


> From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den at openvz.org>
>
> Unfortunately, BUG_ON(IS_ROOT(dentry)) can happen inside
> nfs_follow_mountpoint with NFS running Fedora 8 using a specific setup.
>
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458622

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at redhat.com