linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NLM: Fix "kernel BUG at fs/lockd/host.c:417!" or ".../host.c:283!"

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Message-ID: <20110124211038.GA22199@elliptictech.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:10:38 -0500
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:	trond.myklebust@...app.com, bfields@...ldses.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NLM: Fix "kernel BUG at fs/lockd/host.c:417!" or
 ".../host.c:283!"

On 2011-01-24 15:50 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> reports:
> 
> > We were just having some NFS server troubles, and my client machine
> > running 2.6.38-rc1+ (specifically, commit 2b1caf6ed7b888c95) crashed
> > hard (syslog output appended to this mail).
[...]
> I was able to reproduce this BUG on my client running 2.6.38-rc2
> from earlier today.  Here is a proposed fix.  I can't reproduce the
> BUG with this patch applied.
> 
> However, my reproducer hit the BUG in nlmsvc_release_host().  Nick hit
> roughly the same BUG in nlmclnt_release_host(), which suggests his
> "client" was also acting as a server.

Yeah, there are NFS exports on the client machine as well; although
as nobody had them mounted (and due to the timing of the crash) I hadn't
considered them.

> The symptoms are similar enough that I believe this patch should be
> sufficient to address both cases.

I'll try the patch, but since I don't know how to reproduce the failure
(rebooting the server just to see if it crashes again isn't an option),
I'll have to take your word for it.

Thanks,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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