Re: Kernel panic in cifs_revalidate

Akemi Yagi
2006-12-21T19:33:55Z

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