From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:08:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:08:25 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:37393 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:08:18 -0400 Subject: Re: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer To: $}lkml.jrh{$@daria.co.uk (Jonathan R. Hudson $}lkml.jrh{$@daria.co.uk (Jonathan R. Hudson)) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 23:14:10 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <41a3.3bbf7f68.48052@trespassersw.daria.co.uk> from "$}lkml.jrh{$@daria.co.uk (Jonathan R. Hudson) " at Oct 06, 2001 10:02:16 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In the last week, on a couple of machines running -ac{3,4,5,7}, > reiserfs, I've noticed a number of > kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer > > in the syslog. Should I be concerned ? As far as I can see, there is > no pattern. There were a few reiserfs changes impacting how the buffer counting is done. This sounds like a bug crept into that somewhere