linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing

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Message-ID: <20070918092013.GA1352@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:20:13 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:45:37AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> No idea - it looks like dkpg was trying to remove a directory on the
> same path the lookup was and both have gone splat in __d_lookup on
> the same dentry. Something happened in  those 180 days that left a
> landmine that was tripped over here, I think. I can't see any way of
> tracking it down from this, but thanks for reporting it anyway,

This looks a lot like the i_sem leak that Vlad debugged.  Do you remember
where this was fixed?
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