linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.36-rc1] List corruption when using initrd.

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Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:13:33 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	hughd@...gle.com
Cc:	tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.36-rc1] List corruption when using initrd.

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Thanks for reporting and bisecting.  Certainly there's a bug in shmem
> (that we ought to have caught long before it reached 36-rc1: sorry),
> and it is probably the cause of your crashes; but it's possible there's
> a similar bug elsewhere too, something else messing up the percpu_counters
> list - so please check if the patch below really does fix it for you.

This patch solved the list_add() corruption messages and
"[2.6.36-rc1] Bugs in __free_pipe_info()".

> I notice your dmesg also showed fs/inode.c:692 unlock_new_inode()
> warnings from get_cramfs_inode(): those would be unrelated, and
> probably from Al Viro's recent changes in cramfs/inode.c - Cc'ed.
unlock_new_inode() warnings remain after applying this patch.

Thank you.
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