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From: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel crash with knfsd
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:50:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2B5165.B6A6CEC1@loewe-komp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87heqdanpx.fsf@pdaverticals.com> <15402.12470.768116.337927@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown schrieb:
> 
> On  December 26, dave@rudedog.org wrote:
> > (I am not subscribed, so please CC any response to me)
> >
> > I am having the following problem:
> >
> > Sometimes, when my wife's laptop comes out of suspend mode, it causes my
> > nfs server to lock up hard -- I have to hit the reset button. Even after
> > I reset the server, it will just lock up again a few seconds after knfsd
> > starts, as long as the laptop is still on the net. If I suspend the
> > laptop, then start the server, it will start fine, and I can usually
> > unsuspend the laptop after that without problems. Up until yesterday,
> > there was never anything in the logs.
> 
> snip
> 
> >  Dec 25 14:51:35 pern kernel: Call Trace: [nfsd_findparent+52/256] [find_fh_dentry+558/820] [fh_verify+508/988] [reschedule_idle+98/540] [nfsd_lookup+114/1016]
> >  Dec 25 14:51:35 pern kernel:    [nfsd3_proc_lookup+212/224] [nfsd_dispatch+211/416] [svc_process+653/1240] [nfsd+503/808] [kernel_thread+40/56]
> >  Dec 25 14:51:35 pern kernel:
> >  Dec 25 14:51:35 pern kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.
> 
> snip
> 
> >
> > The server is running 2.4.16 with XFS patches. The nfs-exported
> > directories are both xfs and rieserfs. The laptop runs kernel autofs,
> 
> I have had several reports of XFS triggering an oops early in
> nfsd_findparent.  I thought that the problem has been fixed by
> 2.4.16....
> 
> Can you send me a copy of nfsd_findparent out of fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c
> in the source tree that you are using?
> 

There was a fix in 2.4.3 for lookup("..") failing.

This oops seems to me the one I am waiting to happen again for 4 weeks now :-(

The i_node->op->something is NULL, I guess.

      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-27 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-26 17:35 Kernel crash with knfsd Dave Carrigan
2001-12-26 18:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-26 20:19 ` Neil Brown
2001-12-27 16:50   ` Peter Wächtler [this message]

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