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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [<c01a77a1>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1c2/0x226 SS:ESP 0068:c5ff9db8
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:07:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469038EF.7040709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd0707071753g6dd4445bsaac2e2296327e510@mail.gmail.com>

Miles Lane wrote:
>> Weird, that's unrelated path.  It seems sd->s_parent is NULL in
>> sysfs_link_sibling(), which doesn't make sense because it's being called
>> from sysfs_create_link() which makes sure parent_sd isn't NULL &&
>> sysfs_addrm_start() should have caused oops earlier as it deferences
>> parent_sd.
>>
>> Can you please retry the test (test clean 2.6.22-rc6-mm1, apply patch,
>> rebuild and test)?
> 
> I downloaded linux-2.6.22-rc6.tar.bz2, applied 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 and then
> applied your second patch.  I still get the same OOPS I reported to you
> and Andrew in the image I attached to my previous message.

Thanks a lot.  Just in case, if you remove the patch (patch -R -p1), the
oops goes away, right?

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-08  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-03 16:32 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [<c01a77a1>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1c2/0x226 SS:ESP 0068:c5ff9db8 Miles Lane
2007-07-03 16:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-04  6:23   ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-04  7:36     ` Miles Lane
2007-07-05  7:32       ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]         ` <a44ae5cd0707060101g38147b2gb3d33d9903082113@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-07  6:47           ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-08  0:53             ` Miles Lane
2007-07-08  1:07               ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-07-08  4:56                 ` Miles Lane
2007-07-11  7:21                   ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-11  9:48                     ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-11 22:39                       ` Miles Lane
2007-07-12  3:04                         ` Tejun Heo
2007-07-12  8:25                           ` Miles Lane
2007-07-13  8:35                             ` Tejun Heo

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