Re: [stable] Nasty regression from .27.7 to .27.8: idle samba goescrazy

From: Holger Hoffstätte
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 06:00:24 EST


Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:54:12PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> [samba's smbd going into spin of death after client disconnect]
>
> .9-rc1 does contain a cifs patch, so perhaps that resolved the issue for
> you.

I spoke too soon: no, it didn't help as it happened again last night. I
don't see how CIFS oculd have helped, as userlevel smbd has AFAIK nothing
to do with the CIFS kernel module?

Apparently only pulling the client cable does NOT provoke the bug (tried
several times), whereas putting the client box into sleep mode does
(though that worked at least once as well). This time it also didn't
reboot properly without hard power-off. :/

Now running with Manfred's patch to idr.c; will report back if it happens
again.

Holger
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