linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 17:22:23 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
CC:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Jan, something seems busted here.  I'm getting lockups when testing udf
> on a single cpu with this last patch in place...
> 
> I think it's the BKL stumbling on itself.

To demonstrate, try this:

# BIGFILENAME=`seq -s '' 1 1000`
# ln -s $BIGFILENAME foo

instant deadlock :(

-Eric
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