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SubjectRe: Possible dcache BUG
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:50:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So as far as I can tell, shrink_dcache_anon() will have _removed_ a dentry
> from the unused_list, but still left the dentry with wild pointers
> pointing to other dentries. Next time around we do a dput() on such a
> dentry, we'll be screwed, because we'll try to remove it again. Boom.

It doesn't even take a dput(). Look: we do list_del(), then notice that
sucker still has positive refcount and leave it alone. Now think what
happens on the next pass. That's right, we hit that dentry *again*.
And see that list_empty() is false. And do list_del() one more time.

However, what used to be e.g. next dentry might very well be freed by
now. *BOOM*.
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