linux-kernel - Re: BUG fs/dcache.c:595 in 2.4.24rc3-git3 during NFS umount

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:42:48 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: BUG fs/dcache.c:595 in 2.4.24rc3-git3 during NFS umount

> I appear to have misread d_find_alias(). It would seem that the only way
> to ensure that a mountpoint won't be found is to remove it altogether
> from the inode->i_dentry list. AFAICS that should be largely harmless
> since the nfs sb->s_root is never visible to users, and is never part of
> a dentry tree.

Hasn't BUGed so far with this patch. I'll watch it further but it looks
good so far. Thanks. I would suggest to push the patch.

-Andi

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