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SubjectRe: Oops on 2.4.17 possibly UMS-DOS related
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:36:37PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> X oopsed once on me after about a week of uptime, and now whenever I try
> to run "startx" I get the message
>
> umsdos_lookup_x: tmp/..LINK256 negative after link
>
> followed by the below oops.
>
> System is slackware 8.0 with a hand-compiled stock 2.4.17 kernel,
> 64MB RAM, Pentium II 300Mhz, Matrox Millenium II graphics card.
> Filesystem is a 4GB vfat drive with umsdos running on top. It worked fine
> until this happened... rebooting doesn't help, nor does "umssync" and I
> can't figure out which file is causing the problem (assuming it really is
> a UMS DOS problem, the decoded oops seems a bit odd, but I have made sure
> the system map file is the proper one).


Perhaps this helps?

--- linux-2.4.17/fs/umsdos/dir.c.O Wed Jan 30 04:08:16 2002
+++ linux-2.4.17/fs/umsdos/dir.c Wed Jan 30 04:08:43 2002
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ out_add:
ret = 0;

out_dput:
- if (dret && dret != dentry)
+ if (!IS_ERR(dret) && dret != dentry)
d_drop(dret);
dput(dret);
out:

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