linux-kernel - Re: fs: gpf in simple

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Message-ID: <531DC89A.9010601@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:13:46 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: fs: gpf in simple_setattr

On 03/10/2014 06:43 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
>    By garbage, do you mean that it is a poison, completely random data or does
> inode->i_sb look like a valid pointer but just superblock isn't where it
> points to?

It's poison.

>> >Any way I could get anything useful any other way?
>    Hum, can you dump the whole contents of 'dentry' at that place? Maybe it
> will tell us something.

I'll give it a go, will update when it happens again.


Thanks,
Sasha
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