From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762014AbXE3WYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 18:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758997AbXE3WY1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 18:24:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45435 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761631AbXE3WY0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 18:24:26 -0400 Message-ID: <465DF91F.3010201@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:22:23 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Sandeen CC: Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cyrill Gorcunov Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF References: <20070524165935.GB19709@duck.suse.cz> <20070524170554.GC19709@duck.suse.cz> <20070524203653.GA7693@duck.suse.cz> <465DF0B4.2050203@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <465DF0B4.2050203@sandeen.net> 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 Eric Sandeen wrote: > Jan, something seems busted here. I'm getting lockups when testing udf > on a single cpu with this last patch in place... > > I think it's the BKL stumbling on itself. To demonstrate, try this: # BIGFILENAME=`seq -s '' 1 1000` # ln -s $BIGFILENAME foo instant deadlock :( -Eric