Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:02:17 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.65 oops |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I got a series of oopses. It started in Netscape, and started hitting > more and more programs until it got init... > > I do have the vhand 2.1.65b patch installed; I don't know if that could > have an effect. > > Here's some useful stuff - there's a definite theme there...
Hi Jeremy,
I've seen a number of oops reports similar to this, and it appears that something is freeing a dentry or inode when it's still in use. Then the next call that finds the dentry on a list, typically select_dcache or do_follow_link, gets a trash pointer and oopses.
I haven't been able to see a common cause to focus a search for the problem, but things to look for would be an extra dput() or iput() when there's a remaining reference to the dentry or inode.
Regards, Bill
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