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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 7
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:27:41 -0700
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:13 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Andrew, Al,
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:42 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Bug is still there.  Reverting ""Make ->drop_inode() just return
> > whether inode needs to be dropped" makes it go away.
> > 
> > Al, please don't just dump crap in linux-next and then ignore bug reports. 
> > People are trying to get work done here.
> 
> I will revert that commit in linux-next today if it is still there (and
> not fixed).

Reverting the patch didn't help - the patch moved the BUG_ON() from
generic_delete_inode() into __iput_final().  With the patch reverted
the kernel still goes BUG over the same test in generic_delete_inode().

It could be that the bug was caused by fs-writeback.c changes.  David,
do you have time to take a look at this?