Re: BUG: 2.6.14/2.6.15: USB storage/ext2fs uninterruptable sleep

[Roger Leigh]

Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I use a USB storage device (Kingston 128 MiB keydrive) to hold GPG
> keys, which is automounted with autofs4.  It's looking like a write
> operation on the device (so far always involving an ext2_delete_inode
> up to sync_buffer) causes the process to hang in an uninterruptable
> sleep.
>
> The system is running stock kernel.org linux-2.6.15 and 2.6.14.5 on a
> PowerPC 7447A system (Mac Mini) running Debian unstable.  The .config
> is here: http://www.whinlatter.ukfsn.org/config-2.6.15-hardknott.bz2

This does not appear to occur with 2.6.13.  On 2.6.15, it occurs only
when accessing the device through the autofs4 mount; it works
perfectly if mounted by hand.  This looks like it might be an autofs4
regression.


Regards,
Roger

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