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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I_CLEAR bug while shrinking dcache
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:44:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150414144402.GN3107@type.bordeaux.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150414124428.GW889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Al Viro, le Tue 14 Apr 2015 13:44:29 +0100, a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:12:54AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > So it seems that shrink_dentry_list was trying to kill an inode which
> > already has I_CLEAR.  I'll be trying the attached patch in the next
> > days.
> 
> That patch is just papering over the problem.

I never said it was a proper fix :)

> The first variant can happen, but in that case it should have had
> DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED set by said __dentry_kill() and skipped.  The other
> two are clear inode refcounting bugs.
> 
> Do you have a reproducer for that?

It just happened in the middle of the night.

Samuel
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-14 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-14  8:12 I_CLEAR bug while shrinking dcache Samuel Thibault
2015-04-14 12:44 ` Al Viro
2015-04-14 14:44   ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2015-04-20 22:58     ` Samuel Thibault

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