Re: [PATCH] NLM: Fix "kernel BUG at fs/lockd/host.c:417!" or ".../host.c:283!"

[Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>]

On 2011-01-24 15:50 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> reports:
> 
> > We were just having some NFS server troubles, and my client machine
> > running 2.6.38-rc1+ (specifically, commit 2b1caf6ed7b888c95) crashed
> > hard (syslog output appended to this mail).
[...]
> I was able to reproduce this BUG on my client running 2.6.38-rc2
> from earlier today.  Here is a proposed fix.  I can't reproduce the
> BUG with this patch applied.
> 
> However, my reproducer hit the BUG in nlmsvc_release_host().  Nick hit
> roughly the same BUG in nlmclnt_release_host(), which suggests his
> "client" was also acting as a server.

Yeah, there are NFS exports on the client machine as well; although
as nobody had them mounted (and due to the timing of the crash) I hadn't
considered them.

> The symptoms are similar enough that I believe this patch should be
> sufficient to address both cases.

I'll try the patch, but since I don't know how to reproduce the failure
(rebooting the server just to see if it crashes again isn't an option),
I'll have to take your word for it.

Thanks,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)