linux-ext4 - [Bug 14256] kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:435

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:29:54 GMT
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 14256] kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:435

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256





--- Comment #33 from Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>  2010-01-20 19:29:53 ---
Took a look at the 2.6.29 code, I believe it is possible to have an inode
reference imbalance when a fault is taken. Unfortunately, both queue_lock() and
get_futex_key() acquire references to the inode (I'd like to do away with
queue_lock() as it masks reference usage and generally complicates the
corner-case-heavy futex code). In the fault path queue_unlock() will release
the first inode reference, but if on the first attempt (attempt == 0) the
get_user() fails, we'll simply return without dropping the second reference.
Some instrumentation could confirm this. I'll take a look at later sources
which should have a significantly different fault path.

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