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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OOPS] sysfs_hash_and_remove (was Re: What protection ....)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:04:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224010446.GA24841@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602111041390.13323@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:46:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:22:13PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > > Looks like here it is crashing due to bogus dentry pointer in the kobject
> > > kobj->dentry. Could be some stale pointer?
> >
> > Did you ever figure anything out here?  I'm seeing a lot more reports of
> > this problem lately, especially if you enable slab debugging.  For
> > example:
> > 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5876
> >
> 
> The patch has just been added to the 2.6.16 series so if this does fix the
> bug, we wont know until someone tries one of the 2.6.16-rc kernels (or
> later).

Ugh, you're right, sorry for the noise.  Too many patches floating
around here :)

> Have you seen this bug in one of those kernels?

No I haven't.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22 21:33 What protection does sysfs_readdir have with SMP/Preemption? Steven Rostedt
2005-11-22 21:39 ` Greg KH
2005-11-23  4:50   ` Maneesh Soni
2005-11-23  8:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-23 12:35       ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-23 12:54         ` Maneesh Soni
2005-11-23 12:50       ` Maneesh Soni
2005-11-23 12:52       ` [OOPS] sysfs_hash_and_remove (was Re: What protection ....) Maneesh Soni
2005-11-24 12:26         ` Maneesh Soni
2005-11-24 14:34           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-26 22:26             ` James Bottomley
2006-02-11  0:33         ` Greg KH
2006-02-11 15:46           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-24  1:04             ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-23 12:56     ` What protection does sysfs_readdir have with SMP/Preemption? Steven Rostedt
2005-11-23 13:58       ` Maneesh Soni
2005-11-23 14:15         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-23 14:20           ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-23 15:24             ` kobject_register needs return value checks (was: What protection does sysfs_readdir have with SMP/Preemption?) Steven Rostedt
2005-11-24  4:16           ` What protection does sysfs_readdir have with SMP/Preemption? Maneesh Soni
2005-11-24 14:32             ` Ingo Molnar

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