From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422886AbXDXRvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422907AbXDXRvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:51:51 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.233]:48261 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422886AbXDXRvt (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:51:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pf3OMmKjGthW6YhVcjCDz72hMMC93oI2W23815Ji79HrHqHd1ZAXV11DnrT+2U0TzmhznOgxdpklqwXErhdL6n9lBLB2Ij7DQfbUoG69SsQqd2nP8n51ZN+cCkTyuWxlTr+/Od/XqSYpjmGkYQZXcYdD3N96o7I8v2OXyDHzsqU= Message-ID: <462E43AF.2040305@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:43 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton 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) References: <65258a580704240820lbee4944t1adef1aeb92394ce@mail.gmail.com> <462E3177.4000901@gmail.com> <20070424103358.3be9efcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070424103358.3be9efcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Okay, somehow it's missing lkml on cc list. I included everybody related but missed lkml. A lot of screw ups lately. My apologies. Currently, known problems are... 1. new sysfs_drop_dentry() not allowing drop of parent when it's not empty. Reported by Cornelia and this thread reports the same problem. I'm working on it now. 2. using sysfs_dirent pointer as sysfs inode number doesn't work because ino_t is smaller than ulong on some archs. It's also broken for 32bit apps on 64bit archs. Updated patch just submitted for review. 3. Sysfs rename doesn't work. I broke it during the first series of sysfs updates. Will fix in a few days. Again, sorry for all the troubles. I'll be more careful. -- tejun