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Hi Linus,
The BUG was caught in d_validate() --> dget(). I think the
dentry to be validated can be already on LRU list with d_count
as zero. So, dget_locked should be used in place of dget().
dcache_rcu mistakingly used dget. This patch corrects it.
Please apply the following patch.
diff -urN linux-2.5.63-bk3/fs/dcache.c linux-2.5.63-bk3-d_validate/fs/dcache.c
--- linux-2.5.63-bk3/fs/dcache.c 2003-02-28 12:06:09.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.5.63-bk3-d_validate/fs/dcache.c 2003-02-28 12:16:30.000000000 +0530
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@
* as it is parsed under dcache_lock
*/
if (dentry == list_entry(lhp, struct dentry, d_hash)) {
- dget(dentry);
+ __dget_locked(dentry);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
return 1;
}
Regards,
Maneesh
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Maneesh Soni
IBM Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com
http://lse.sourceforge.net/
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