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From: Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel panic in cifs_revalidate
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:32:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.12.21.19.32.54.182348@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2006.11.21.14.58.30.968552@gmail.com

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:58:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:24:40 -0800, Chakri n wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am seeing a kernel panic in cifs module. It seems to be a result of
>> invalid inode entry in dentry for the file it is trying to validate.
>> 
>> The inode->i_ino is set zero and inode->i_mapping is set to NULL in
>> the inode pointer in the dentry (0xdf8ea200) structure. I went through
>> the cifs code and could not find any valid case that could trigger
>> this situation. Is there any case which can lead to this situation?
>> 

> 
> I have been getting kernel oops caused by cifs mount starting with kernel
> 2.6.18.  I filed a bug report to RedHat bugzilla at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672
> 

A patch for this cifs problem has been posted on the Bugzilla (see the
link above).

Akemi


      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-21  8:24 Kernel panic in cifs_revalidate Chakri n
2006-11-21 14:58 ` Akemi Yagi
2006-12-21 19:32   ` Akemi Yagi [this message]

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