Re: [OOPS 2.6.21-rc7-mm1] kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/inode.c:272(sysfs_drop_dentry)

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:43 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:33:59 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> Vincent Vanackere wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm getting the following oops at boot with the latest -mm kernel :
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/inode.c:272
> >> Known problem.  Working on it.  Thanks.
> >>
> > 
> > If it had been known by me I wouldn't have released known-buggy code to
> > people who need to be able to test other people's code too. (argh)
> > 
> 
> It's the problem Cornelia reported in the thread the patch was posted.

Is there a workaround?  What might happen if we just delete that BUG_ON()?
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