From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422924AbXDXR6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:58:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422952AbXDXR6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:58:51 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:60261 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422924AbXDXR6u (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:58:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:58:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tejun Heo Cc: Vincent Vanackere , linux kernel mailing list , Greg KH Subject: Re: [OOPS 2.6.21-rc7-mm1] kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/inode.c:272 (sysfs_drop_dentry) Message-Id: <20070424105844.da798b07.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <462E43AF.2040305@gmail.com> References: <65258a580704240820lbee4944t1adef1aeb92394ce@mail.gmail.com> <462E3177.4000901@gmail.com> <20070424103358.3be9efcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <462E43AF.2040305@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:43 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:33:59 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > > > >> Vincent Vanackere wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm getting the following oops at boot with the latest -mm kernel : > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/inode.c:272 > >> Known problem. Working on it. Thanks. > >> > > > > If it had been known by me I wouldn't have released known-buggy code to > > people who need to be able to test other people's code too. (argh) > > > > It's the problem Cornelia reported in the thread the patch was posted. Is there a workaround? What might happen if we just delete that BUG_ON()?