Re: 3.0 rc3 bug & warning fs/inode.c && fs/fs-writeback.c

[Greg Dietsche <greg@gregd.org>]

On 06/21/2011 07:45 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:25:52AM -0500, Greg Dietsche wrote:
>> from the just missed rc4 department:
>> I recieved this BUG last night on my laptop and it was shortly
>> followed by a warning from the kernel. I doubt that I can reproduce
>> this. It happened under a light load. I was doing some emailing
>> using thunderbird (er.... icedove.....). let me know if there's
>> anything I can do to help debug or if there's more info I can get
>> that would help you figure out what went wrong.
>
> Which filesystems had been mounted?  That looks like a stray pointer
> to struct inode (i.e. outliving the inode eviction on final iput());
> might be the one fixed by commit 50338b889dc504c69e0cb316ac92d1b9e51f3c8a,
> might be something else...
>
I'm leaning towards might be something else. Correct me if I'm wrong, 
but it seems that 50338b889dc504c69e0cb316ac92d1b9e51f3c8a was included 
in rc3.

thanks,
Greg