Re: Crashes in next-20160915 (BUG at fs/notify/notification.c:66!)

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Sep 19 2016 - 21:10:42 EST


Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri 16-09-16 04:10:38, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 09/15/2016 11:45 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>> >On Thu 15-09-16 19:20:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> >>I see various architectures crashing in -next with the following error.
>> >>------------[ cut here ]------------
>> >>kernel BUG at fs/notify/notification.c:66!
>>
>> >correct" - famous last words ;). I've seen zero-day robot complain as well
>> >so I'll try the config it had sent me and see what's going on (likely
>> >spin_is_locked() does not do what I thought under some configs...).
>>
>> Your builds are probably all SMP builds. Looks like this happens if SMP
>> is disabled.
>
> Right, that was the problem. spin_is_locked() without CONFIG_SPINLOCK_DEBUG
> returns always 0.

Can we get this fixed soon please? It's breaking all my CI runs.

cheers