[fuse-devel] RE: Fusermount oops (FUSE 1.4)

[Luka R. <luk...@he...>]

> > I will now download FUSE 2.3.0 and try to reproduce this with it. 
> 
> Got it.  It's a bug in 1.4, probably only triggered in recent kernels.
> 
> Fix is to replace S_IFSOCK with S_IFREG in kernel/dev.c.  But 
> upgrading to 2.3 is the more proper solution.

That solved it - thanks!

We plan to switch to 2.4 (with inode interface) soon.

> 
> I'm wondering how you are able to run 1.4 on such a new 
> kernel?  It needs tweeking to compile.

It is only vfs_permission() change of interface which we workaround with
simple:

--- fuse-1.4/kernel/fuse_i.h:1.1       Wed Oct 27 11:42:31 2004
+++ fuse-1.4/kernel/fuse_i.h   Thu Jul  7 14:32:55 2005
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>

+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,10)
+/* work around vfs_permission changes */
+#define vfs_permission(INODE, MASK) generic_permission(INODE, MASK, NULL)
+#endif
+
 /** Read combining parameters */
 #define FUSE_BLOCK_SHIFT 16
 #define FUSE_BLOCK_SIZE 65536

Regards,
Luka