Re: Kernel OOOPS in 2.6.11.6

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:30:44PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:44:30PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Ali Akcaagac (aliakc@web.de) wrote:
> > > And happy easter to you all. Just got this while trying to delete some
> > > files on my system.
> > ...
> > > : EIP is at linvfs_open+0x59/0xa0
> > ...
> > Nothing in the -stable series has changed either XFS or the core vfs
> > path on during file open.  Without a chance of reproducing or any more
> > information, it'll be tough to make much progress here.
> 
> *nod*.
> 
> Your full .config would be useful too, Ali, thanks.
> 
> > with eax == 00000000.  This corresponds to a vp->v_fops (or rather
> > vp->v_bh.bh_first->bd_ops) deref.  So, looks like the vnode has a
> > NULL v_bh.bh_first (which looks like it's meant to be used to mean
> > uninitialized).  May check with XFS folks if they've seen this type
> > of bug.
> 
> Its not currently known.  Looks like a possible iget-related race;
> does this one ring any bells, Christoph?

This means the inode wasn't fully initialized.  This looks more like a
problem of not unwinding properly on an error than a race to me.

I'll take a deeper look.