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

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Message-ID: <20080322071926.GA1743@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:19:26 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:26:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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: ???

Ok, I'll move it up the stack to send to Linus on Monday.

thanks,

greg k-h
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