Re: [patch] Attempt #2 to handle null nameidata

On 04/09/2010 01:28 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:40:47 -0500
> Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, �7 Apr 2010 11:19:10 -0500
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> While creating a file on a server which supports unix extensions
>>>> such as Samba, if a file is being created which does not supply
>>>> nameidata (i.e. nd is null), cifs client can oops when calling
>>>> cifs_posix_open.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>
>>>> Reported-by: Eugene Teo <[email protected]>

> 
> We'll need to take this patch in the interim though to fix the
> immediate oops.
> 

Do we need to Cc -stable as well as the issue seem to be reproducible on
kernel versions > 2.6.29-rc6?

Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman
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