From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765102AbXKNXvj (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763627AbXKNXvZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53491 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763116AbXKNXvY (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:24 -0500 Message-ID: <473B89F9.7070204@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:21 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Repeated oopses with inode == 0xffffffff in 2.6.23 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What does it mean when a pointer to an inode has a value of -1? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334181 /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.22/linux-2.6.22.x86_64/block/ll_rw_blk.c:3139 ffffffff8110854e: 48 8b 45 10 mov 0x10(%rbp),%rax ffffffff81108552: 48 8b 40 08 mov 0x8(%rax),%rax ffffffff81108556: 48 8b 40 68 mov 0x68(%rax),%rax maxsector = bio->bi_bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9; bd_inode == -1 ----------- rw_verify_area+0x24/0x7e inode == -1 again ------- Additional Comments From cebbert@redhat.com 2007-11-14 18:39 EST ------- fs/dnotify.c:46: inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; ===> if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) return; inode is -1 again