Root dentry has weird name <>: WARNING: at fs/dcache.c:1984prepend_path+0x165/0x170()

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Sat Jan 15 2011 - 09:13:01 EST


Hi,

Kernel 2.6.37, Debian testing:

[393346.970951] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[393346.970957] WARNING: at fs/dcache.c:1984 prepend_path+0x165/0x170()
[393346.970958] Hardware name: [393346.970959] Root dentry has weird name <>
[393346.970960] Modules linked in:
[393346.970962] Pid: 844, comm: chrome-sandbox Not tainted 2.6.37 #2
[393346.970964] Call Trace:
[393346.970968] [<ffffffff8103307b>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7b/0xc0
[393346.970970] [<ffffffff81033175>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x50
[393346.970973] [<ffffffff810b79f5>] ? prepend_path+0x165/0x170
[393346.970975] [<ffffffff810b7cbf>] ? d_path+0xcf/0x100
[393346.970978] [<ffffffff810e9c5c>] ? proc_pid_readlink+0x8c/0xe0
[393346.970981] [<ffffffff810a8969>] ? sys_readlinkat+0x79/0xb0
[393346.970983] [<ffffffff810022bb>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[393346.970985] ---[ end trace c6de02a53f3a3138 ]---
[393346.971128] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[393346.971130] WARNING: at fs/dcache.c:1984 prepend_path+0x165/0x170()
[393346.971131] Hardware name: [393346.971132] Root dentry has weird name <>
[393346.971133] Modules linked in:
[393346.971134] Pid: 844, comm: chrome-sandbox Tainted: G W 2.6.37 #2
[393346.971136] Call Trace:
[393346.971138] [<ffffffff8103307b>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7b/0xc0
[393346.971140] [<ffffffff81033175>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x50
[393346.971142] [<ffffffff810b79f5>] ? prepend_path+0x165/0x170
[393346.971144] [<ffffffff810b7cbf>] ? d_path+0xcf/0x100
[393346.971146] [<ffffffff810e9c5c>] ? proc_pid_readlink+0x8c/0xe0
[393346.971149] [<ffffffff810a8969>] ? sys_readlinkat+0x79/0xb0
[393346.971150] [<ffffffff810022bb>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[393346.971152] ---[ end trace c6de02a53f3a3139 ]---

Justin.

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