Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:24:26 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.33-rc1 |
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:12:22PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:06:51 +0200, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > > >Hi Grant, > > > >OK, it does *really* crash in vfs_unlink(), during the double_up on > >dentry->inode-i_zombie (dentry->inode = NULL). > > > >I suggest the following fix, I hope that it is correct and is not subject > >to any race condition : > > > >--- ./fs/namei.c.orig 2006-06-19 09:39:52.000000000 +0200 > >+++ ./fs/namei.c 2006-06-19 09:51:09.000000000 +0200 > >@@ -1478,12 +1478,14 @@ > > int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) > > { > > int error; > >+ struct inode *inode; > > > > error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 0); > > if (error) > > return error; > > > >- double_down(&dir->i_zombie, &dentry->d_inode->i_zombie); > >+ inode = dentry->d_inode; > >+ double_down(&dir->i_zombie, &inode->i_zombie); > > error = -EPERM; > > if (dir->i_op && dir->i_op->unlink) { > > DQUOT_INIT(dir); > >@@ -1495,7 +1497,7 @@ > > unlock_kernel(); > > } > > } > >- double_up(&dir->i_zombie, &dentry->d_inode->i_zombie); > >+ double_up(&dir->i_zombie, &inode->i_zombie); > > if (!error) { > > d_delete(dentry); > > inode_dir_notify(dir, DN_DELETE); > > > >I think it will *not* oops anymore with this fix, but I'd like someone to > >review it to ensure that it is valid. > > Strangely, the /etc/lilo.conf~ is as expected on a different box, > 500MHz Celeron (Coppermine) + PATA HDD okay, whereas the Sempron > SktA 2600+ with SATA HDD has something munch a couple chars off > a filename during whatever vim does to make its backup file.
I would not suspect the hardware. Instead, you should strace vim when it write the file :
# strace -s 1000 -o /tmp/vim.trace vim /etc/lilo.conf
Grep for "lilo.co" in it, I'm fairly sure that you will find "lilo.co~".
> Grant.
Cheers, Willy
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