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Message-ID: <20070328201511.GA20889@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:15:11 +0200 From: Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@...x01.fht-esslingen.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>, Ethan Solomita <solo@...gle.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [FIXED] Re: tty OOPS (Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2) Hi, On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:56:32PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > The only suspicious new patch in -rc5-mm1 to me is > fix-sysfs-reclaim-crash.patch which removes "sd->s_dentry = NULL;". Note > that whole sysfs_drop_dentry() is NOP if ->s_dentry is NULL. > > Could you try to revert it? > > Alexey, who knows very little about sysfs internals Apparently that's still too much knowledge ;) Or, in other words: 6 reboots already and not a single problem! So yes, the removal of the NULLing line in this patch most likely has caused this issue on my box. Now the question is whether something as simple as that is a fully correct fix or whether something should be done entirely differently. I'll let people more familiar with those parts decide about it... Thanks! Andreas Mohr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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