Re: [OOPS] sysfs_hash_and_remove (was Re: What protection ....)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 10:44:56 EST


On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:22:13PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > Looks like here it is crashing due to bogus dentry pointer in the kobject
> > kobj->dentry. Could be some stale pointer?
>
> Did you ever figure anything out here? I'm seeing a lot more reports of
> this problem lately, especially if you enable slab debugging. For
> example:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5876
>

The patch has just been added to the 2.6.16 series so if this does fix the
bug, we wont know until someone tries one of the 2.6.16-rc kernels (or
later).

Have you seen this bug in one of those kernels?

-- Steve

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