Re: Crash when unmounting NFS/TCP with -f

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

fr den 22.04.2005 Klokka 14:32 (+0200) skreiv Brice Goglin:
> Hi Trond,
> 
> I'm using NFS (v2) over TCP (in a SSH tunnel).
> Each time the SSH dies before a umount NFS, I have to umount -f
> and I get a crash (only sysrq works).
> Actually, the crash occurs a few seconds after umount -f.
> 
> It seems that killing SSH by hand does _not_ lead to crash.
> But a long network failure does.
> I remember seeing this bug several times with all stable releases
> from 2.6.7 to 2.6.11. I didn't try with earlier versions.
> 
> I didn't see anything in the logs (after reboot). But I can't be sure
> there was nothing in dmesg since I didn't get a chance to chvt 1 and
> see console messages before rebooting (with sysrq).

I'll try to reproduce. There has just been a discussion about "umount
-f" on the NFS mailing list (nfs@lists.sourceforge.net), where Peter
Cendio said he was seeing the following Oops:

  http://www.cendio.se/~peter/fc3-umount-crash.png

I am unable to reproduce Peter's crash, but I didn't try the scenario
that you describe above.

Cheers,
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>