linux-kernel - Re: Crashes in next-20160915 (BUG at fs/notify/notification.c:66!)

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:10:35 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Crashes in next-20160915 (BUG at fs/notify/notification.c:66!)

Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> writes:
> On Fri 16-09-16 04:10:38, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 09/15/2016 11:45 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>> >On Thu 15-09-16 19:20:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> >>I see various architectures crashing in -next with the following error.
>> >>------------[ cut here ]------------
>> >>kernel BUG at fs/notify/notification.c:66!
>>
>> >correct" - famous last words ;). I've seen zero-day robot complain as well
>> >so I'll try the config it had sent me and see what's going on (likely
>> >spin_is_locked() does not do what I thought under some configs...).
>> 
>> Your builds are probably all SMP builds. Looks like this happens if SMP
>> is disabled.
>
> Right, that was the problem. spin_is_locked() without CONFIG_SPINLOCK_DEBUG
> returns always 0.

Can we get this fixed soon please? It's breaking all my CI runs.

cheers