linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc6: kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/file.c:89

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Message-Id: <20080321232632.84a2af8a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:26:32 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6: kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/file.c:89

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:20:25 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> > - we're killing people's machines.  Can we switch it to a
> >   WARN_ON()+fix-up-the-mess?
> 
> The patch above does just that, it's queued up for .26, but I have no
> objection to add it now if you want.

It'd be best to do so, I think.

Upsides: we get more debug info and we might save people's machines

Downsides: ???

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