From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754103AbZHUGZg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:25:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753240AbZHUGZf (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:25:35 -0400 Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.142]:41085 "EHLO smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753067AbZHUGZf (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:25:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:25:16 +0100 From: Grant Wilson To: Eric Paris Cc: aviro@redhat.com, lkml , eparis@redhat.com Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc6: Oops in fsnotify Message-ID: <20090821072516.0ac7bbab@worthy.swandive.local> In-Reply-To: <7e0fb38c0908201922r6f9598f9ja95623ea6cf11254@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090820164818.6039c185@worthy.swandive.local> <7e0fb38c0908201922r6f9598f9ja95623ea6cf11254@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.71.45.175] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:22:34 -0400 Eric Paris wrote: > I'll take a close look in the morning. I don't offhand see how this > is possible without calling vfs_unlink on a negative dentry (does that > even make sense?) > > What was the filesystem you are dealing with? Odd, very, odd (as with > all the problems people find in my notify code) > The filesystem is ext4 (converted from ext3). Grant