From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423060AbWLUTdz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:33:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423058AbWLUTdz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:33:55 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44668 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423057AbWLUTdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:33:54 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Akemi Yagi Subject: Re: Kernel panic in cifs_revalidate Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:32:58 -0800 Message-ID: References: <92cbf19b0611210024j3c1e2c6cr4b6d47ed6aaf2925@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: energy.scripps.edu User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:58:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:24:40 -0800, Chakri n wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am seeing a kernel panic in cifs module. It seems to be a result of >> invalid inode entry in dentry for the file it is trying to validate. >> >> The inode->i_ino is set zero and inode->i_mapping is set to NULL in >> the inode pointer in the dentry (0xdf8ea200) structure. I went through >> the cifs code and could not find any valid case that could trigger >> this situation. Is there any case which can lead to this situation? >> > > I have been getting kernel oops caused by cifs mount starting with kernel > 2.6.18. I filed a bug report to RedHat bugzilla at: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672 > A patch for this cifs problem has been posted on the Bugzilla (see the link above). Akemi