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

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Message-Id: <1197507750.8554.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:02:30 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	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


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 00:42 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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

Thanks Andi! I'll push it together with the other patches asap.

Cheers
  Trond

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