Re: busy inodes -> ext3 umount crash

[Eric Paris]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 17:47 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 05:24 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
> > I'll take a look, but I'm not seeing a problem right off
> > hand.  This patch wasn't supposed to mess with inode refcounting at
> > all....
> 
> Heh, but with very high probability now, it did :). Do you want me to
> inject some printouts anywhere? Can you reproduce it? KDE doesn't
> trigger the bug. After I switched from KDE to gnome in qemu, it started
> to occur (X :0 & (sleep 1; DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session)).

Well I reproduced and I'll take a look.  reliable steps seem to be:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/ext3 bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((100*1024))
# mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/shm/ext3
# mount -oloop /dev/shm/ext3 /mnt/c
# touch /mnt/c/file
# inotifywait -m /mnt/c/file
# umount /mnt/c
# dmesg|tail

-Eric

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