Re: [2.6.3] kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2660

From: Chris Mason
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 16:46:59 EST


On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 08:08, Andrey A Belashkov wrote:
> Hello Kernel Hackers.
>
> On my wireless router i got strange bug. All what i can do after this,
> it`s type "dmesg". Then all user space processes are halts, but host
> pings and proper work as router. This machine acts only as router.
> Vanilla 2.6.3 kernel, just changed EXTRAVERSION for internal usage.
>

This looks like a race between the journal writeback code and a
previously logged buffer being freed. It's fixed in my logging
patchset, which I'm trying to get into the mainline kernels.

-chris


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