Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.22 - Atomic counter underflow in NFS

[Chris Rankin]

--- Satyam Sharma <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I expect this is easy to reproduce at will (when shutting down nfs
> services, probably), right?

I'm not sure about the "at will" part because this is the first time I've seen it since 2.6.22 was
released. However, I was upgrading my Fedora 7 nfs-utils package at the time so it probably did
happen when the NFS service was being shut down.

> Please try the latest mainline -git kernel (say 2.6.23-rc1-git10 from
> kernel.org) and let us know if this still occurs? There were some fixes
> regarding sysfs symlink refcounting that went in recently, and this looks
> like one of those cases to me.

Do you have the actual patches instead?

Cheers,
Chris



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