Re: [OOPS] sysfs_hash_and_remove (was Re: What protection ....)

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:46:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:22:13PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> > > Looks like here it is crashing due to bogus dentry pointer in the kobject
> > > kobj->dentry. Could be some stale pointer?
> >
> > Did you ever figure anything out here?  I'm seeing a lot more reports of
> > this problem lately, especially if you enable slab debugging.  For
> > example:
> > 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5876
> >
> 
> The patch has just been added to the 2.6.16 series so if this does fix the
> bug, we wont know until someone tries one of the 2.6.16-rc kernels (or
> later).

Ugh, you're right, sorry for the noise.  Too many patches floating
around here :)

> Have you seen this bug in one of those kernels?

No I haven't.

thanks,

greg k-h
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