linux-kernel - Re: BUG: at fs/inotify.c:182 set_dentry_child_flags()

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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:20:06 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Cesar Suga <sartre@...uxbr.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: at fs/inotify.c:182 set_dentry_child_flags() - second

  Hello,

> I second Patrick McLean's e-mail from 2007/02/27.
> 
> Patrick also said he was using nfsd at that point.
> 
> WARNING: at fs/inotify.c:182 set_dentry_child_flags()
> Pid: 19103, comm: gam_server Tainted: P        2.6.24.3-smp #1
> [<c01a2087>] set_dentry_child_flags+0x127/0x160
> [<c01a2110>] remove_watch_no_event+0x50/0x60
> [<c01a2228>] inotify_remove_watch_locked+0x18/0x50
> [<c01a258c>] inotify_rm_wd+0x6c/0xb0
> [<c01a2ba8>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x38/0x60
> [<c0104336>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> =======================
> 
> Running Slackware 2.6.24.3-smp stock kernel. However, ntpdate ran 1 
> minute before this occurred (offset 7.4 seconds). Machine was running 
> rsync to a remote NFS server (common rsync, not using rsync protocol) 
> mounted at the local machine.
  Here, the check itself has been racy (and producing bogus warnings) and
is already removed in current Linus's tree. Thanks for report.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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