Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 18:24:42 EST


Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Jan, something seems busted here. I'm getting lockups when testing udf
> on a single cpu with this last patch in place...
>
> I think it's the BKL stumbling on itself.

To demonstrate, try this:

# BIGFILENAME=`seq -s '' 1 1000`
# ln -s $BIGFILENAME foo

instant deadlock :(

-Eric
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