linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31-rc6: Oops in fsnotify

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Message-ID: <20090821072516.0ac7bbab@worthy.swandive.local>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:25:16 +0100
From:	Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@....co.uk>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
Cc:	aviro@...hat.com, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	eparis@...hat.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc6: Oops in fsnotify

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:22:34 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org> wrote:

> I'll take a close look in the morning.  I don't offhand see how this
> is possible without calling vfs_unlink on a negative dentry (does that
> even make sense?)
> 
> What was the filesystem you are dealing with?  Odd, very, odd (as with
> all the problems people find in my notify code)
> 
The filesystem is ext4 (converted from ext3).

Grant
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