[PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Sep 16 2008 - 19:51:17 EST


we're seeing some corruption in the dentry->d_alias list that
appears like a free of an entry still on the list; this patch
adds a WARN_ON() to catch this scenario, as suggested by Al Viro

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 80e9395..4c39a59 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat = {

static void __d_free(struct dentry *dentry)
{
+ WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dentry->d_alias));
if (dname_external(dentry))
kfree(dentry->d_name.name);
kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
--
1.5.5.1


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