Re: CIFS related seg fault (v2.6.37)

Steve French
2011-01-20T04:55:58Z

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> wrote:
> (Cc linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org)
>
> On 01/20/2011 07:05 AM, Peter Teoh wrote:
>> Filed a bug today:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27082
>>
>> Version of kernel (linus git tree synced):   v2.6.37-3737-g0c21e3a
>>
>> Output of dmesg summarized here:
>>
>> [ 7273.369563] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 7273.369575] kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:1358!
>
> Looks like the issue is already fixed in VFS (see discussion):
>        http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/2284
>
> Jeff: Looks like the issue is reproducible with 2.6.37 too.. Any idea
> which is the commit that fixes this problem and whether it has been
> marked for -stable?

So Jeff's change referenced (to fs/cifs/dir.c) above is not needed due
to a vfs change?

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Thanks,

Steve