Re: slab corruption in test9 (NFS related?)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> An extra dput was introduced in nfsd_rename 20 months ago....
> 
> time to remove it.

Oh, you stand-up comedian you.

I'm just wondering how the hell this hasn't bit us seriously until now?  
What's up?

In other words, your patch certainly looks obviously correct, but it also
looks _so_ obviously correct that my alarm bells are going off. If the
code was quite that broken at counting dentries, how the hell did it ever
work AT ALL?

Call me suspicious, but I find this really strange..

		Linus

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