Re: [3.10.4] NFS locking panic, plus persisting NFS shutdown panic from 3.9.*

From: Nix
Date: Wed Aug 07 2013 - 17:01:42 EST


On 7 Aug 2013, Trond Myklebust said:

> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 11:18 +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On 6 Aug 2013, Trond Myklebust verbalised:
>> > True. How about something like the following instead. Note the change to
>> > the original patch...
>>
>> Well, with those applied I could reboot without a panic for the first
>> time since 3.8.x: looking good. I'll give it a reboot or two with a
>> system that's not hot from booting though.
>
> Could you please also try applying only the 1/2 patch, to see if that
> suffices to quell the shutdown panic?

It doesn't suffice. I see this severely truncated oops:

[ 115.799092] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[ 115.800284] IP: [<ffffffff81165ec6>] path_init+0x11c/0x36f
[ 115.801463] PGD 0
[ 115.802625] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 115.803805] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: microcode]
[ 115.804995] CPU: 3 PID: 1191 Comm: sleep Not tainted 3.10.5-05317-g3c9f6fa-dirty #2
[ 115.806207] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8H61-MX USB3, BIOS 0506 08/10/2012
[ 115.807453] task: ffff8804189a0000 ti: ffff8803f74d6000 task.ti: ffff8803f74d6000

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