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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Peter Leckie <pleckie@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: crash with latest code drop.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:55:30 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016055530.GE25906@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F6AA3E.8030902@sgi.com>

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:43:10PM +1000, Peter Leckie wrote:
>
>>>  - it's the same as
>>> the first report - deferencing the linux inode without first having
>>> a refernce on it.
>>>   
>>
>> Yes it resolves the issue.
>
> I spoke to soon, Ooops as follows:
....

> Adding the following resolved the issue however you may wish to solve it  
> in another manner.
>
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ xfs_sync_inodes_ag(
>                 * in reclaim. Leave it for the reclaim code to flush.
>                 */
>                inode = VFS_I(ip);
> -               if (!igrab(inode)) {
> +               if (!inode || !igrab(inode)) {
>                        read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
>                        continue;
>                }

Yes, or you could simply apply the "combine linux/XFS inode" patch
series and then VFS_I(ip) will never, ever return NULL.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15  1:49 crash with latest code drop Peter Leckie
2008-10-15  1:18 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-15  2:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15  3:16     ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-15  3:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15  3:51         ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-15  5:50           ` Peter Leckie
2008-10-15  6:19             ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-15  7:51               ` Peter Leckie
2008-10-16  2:43                 ` Peter Leckie
2008-10-16  5:55                   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-10-16  9:00                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-17  1:01                     ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-10-22  6:19               ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-23  4:23                 ` Peter Leckie
2008-10-23  5:39                   ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-15  3:47   ` Peter Leckie

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