Re: 2.5.70-bk16: nfs crash

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:57:26PM +0000, John M Flinchbaugh wrote:
> running 2.5.70-bk16, i got this error and hang.  sysrq worked for
> reboot, etc.
> 
> it apparently crashed when it mounted an nfs export from a 2.4.18 box,
> and tried to mv a file.  i doubt it matters, but the nic is an
> orinoco_cs wireless card.  thanks.
> 
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: printing eip:
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: c0169ef1
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: CPU:    0
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c0169ef1>]    Not tainted
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: EIP is at d_move+0x51/0x250
> Jun 12 02:00:04 density kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: cd5e6960   ecx: cd5e69d0   edx: 00000000

I am not supprised at all by this, I can see two csets in Linus' tree 
that will definitely break dcache -

1. http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1215.104.2?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2d

__d_drop() *must not* initialize d_hash fields. Lockfree lookup depends on
that. If __d_drop() needs to be allowed on an unhashed dentry, the right
thing to do would be to check for DCACHE_UNHASHED before unhashing. I will
submit a patch a little later to do this.


2. http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1215.104.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2d

hlist poison patch is broken. list_del_rcu() and hlist_del_rcu() 
*must not* re-initialize the pointers. Maneesh submitted a patch
earlier today that corrects this -

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105541206017154&w=2


Thanks
Dipankar