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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Richard Ems <richard.ems@cape-horn-eng.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs_lookup_revalidate BUG ?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:35:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814183512.GI23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA93A4848@SACEXCMBX04-PRD.hq.netapp.com>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:04:08PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > Is this a known BUG ?
> > Which other information or test can I do to contribute searching/resolving this issue?
> 
> I'm not 100% certain, but it looks to me as if the call to dget_parent()
> in nfs_lookup_revalidate is returning NULL.
> 
> Could you please apply the following patch, and see if that triggers the
> WARN_ON instead of the above Oops?

Unlikely as hell.  dget_parent() has only one return in it, and it's
        BUG_ON(!ret->d_count);
        ret->d_count++;
        spin_unlock(&ret->d_lock);
        return ret;
so it's extremely unlikely that it would managed to return NULL.  Not
without oopsing...

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-14 10:00 nfs_lookup_revalidate BUG ? Richard Ems
2012-08-14 18:04 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-08-14 18:35   ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-08-14 18:48     ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-08-14 19:11       ` Jeff Layton
2012-08-15 11:57         ` Richard Ems
2012-08-15 13:20           ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-08-15 13:22             ` Richard Ems
2012-08-15 13:38               ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-08-15 13:40                 ` Richard Ems
2012-08-15 13:55                   ` Myklebust, Trond

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