Re: 2.6.6-mm1: nameif causes oops

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Jurriaan (thunder7@xs4all.nl) wrote:
> In my untainted 2.6.6-mm1 kernel, I see an oops (the one with the turtle
> graphics) when booting, caused by the usage of nameif (which renames
> ethernet interfaces from 'eth0' to 'adsl' for example).

This has been reported a few other times and Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
posted a patch already.  I added it below.

thanks,
-chris
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ok it is sysfs related and because of the backing store patches from me.

And here is the fix. Hope this solves your problem. 


Thanks
Maneesh

o Fix sysfs_rename_dir(). The sysfs_lookup() does not hash
  negative dentries so just hash it before calling d_move

 fs/sysfs/dir.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN fs/sysfs/dir.c~sysfs-backing-store-sysfs_rename_dir-fix fs/sysfs/dir.c
--- linux-2.6.6-mm1/fs/sysfs/dir.c~sysfs-backing-store-sysfs_rename_dir-fix	2004-10-06 15:21:37.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.6-mm1-maneesh/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2004-10-06 15:22:03.000000000 +0530
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ void sysfs_rename_dir(struct kobject * k
 	new_dentry = sysfs_get_dentry(parent, new_name);
 	if (!IS_ERR(new_dentry)) {
 		if (!new_dentry->d_inode) {
+			d_add(new_dentry, NULL);
 			d_move(kobj->dentry, new_dentry);
 			kobject_set_name(kobj,new_name);
 		}