Re: 2.1.50 VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.

David S. Miller (davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 01:39:39 -0400

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 22:31:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>

I've seen this bug reported by two or three people now, and I can't
for teh life of me see how it could happen: the "inode" pointer in
the dentry is totally corrupted (0xffffffff is definitely a bad
inode pointer).

Looks like a PTR_ERR() botch...