Re: weird d_entry->d_inode pointer

Andrew Clausen (clausen@alphalink.com.au)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:12:29 -0400


Alexander Viro wrote:

> If all oopsen had the same ->d_inode causing the problem... Well, all
> infomration you have is that one dentry was fscked up. Some hints might
> come from the knowledge of *what* dentry it was (if you'll ever get the
> same you may try to run strace on the offending program and look what it
> tried to do), but so far all we have here is the "normal" effect of one
> dentry being screwed. May be anything... Now, if you got different
> addresses it might be more informative. IOW - not enough information to do
> anything. Sorry ;-/

Hmmm. I suspected this might be the case.

I had a look through my logs, and noticed lots and lots of
oopsen. I didn't realise when I posted! Does intuition suggest any
places I should look into? I'll look into the ALSA problem, anyway...

# grep EIP /var/log/messages
Jun 1 09:37:26 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0005201>]
Jun 1 09:43:28 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_inode+26/52]
Jun 1 12:55:13 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_writev+44/144]
Jun 1 12:55:13 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[filp_close+7/88]
Jun 3 06:50:25 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+407/428]
Jun 3 06:56:45 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+382/428]
Jun 5 05:29:32 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[exit_mmap+90/268]
Jun 5 21:27:33 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[cpu_idle+65/96] EFLAGS:
0000024
6
Jun 5 21:27:49 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[cpu_idle+65/96] EFLAGS:
0000024
6
Jun 6 13:45:16 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+410/464]
Jun 6 17:01:04 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:07 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:10 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:10 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:10 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:15 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:26 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:27 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 6 17:01:32 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+96/224]
Jun 8 07:01:23 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+410/464]
Jun 8 17:29:20 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+410/464]
Jun 8 21:28:19 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0008a0f>]
Jun 9 19:16:55 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+410/464]
Jun 10 07:04:50 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[kfree+410/464]
Jun 10 16:25:26 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[<bffffae8>]
Jun 11 07:26:40 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_vma+61/96]
Jun 11 08:19:35 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[tracesys+7/35]
Jun 11 09:50:10 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0008204>]
Jun 12 08:48:37 satisfactory kernel: EIP:
0010:[isapnp:isapnp_wake_Rsmp_fc4e2140+-67307506/32]
Jun 12 13:23:22 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_read+92/240]
Jun 12 13:23:22 satisfactory kernel: EIP:
0010:[locks_remove_posix+36/160]
Jun 12 13:23:22 satisfactory kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_ioctl+368/480]

Andrew Clausen

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