Re: oops when calling sync(2)
Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 17:19:58 +0200
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am hoping someone here will be able to fix this as I am not a kernel
> > hacker. After an uptime of around 12 days, Linux kernel 2.2.9 started
> > oopsing whenever sync was ran. an strace on sync determined sync(2)
> > returns unfinished and sync itself then segfaults. A reboot fixed the
> > problem but I have experienced it with early 2.2 kernels as well. System
> > info:
>
> It happened to me also, and it seems to be a problem with the quota
> code 'cause a quotaoff-quotacheck-quotaon ended the oopses. (perhaps
> corrupted quota files caused this?)
This could be easily caused by bugs in kernel-quota code... I've made patches
for those bugs - you can download them at ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/jack/quota-fix-2.2.9.diff.gz.
They should get to 2.2.10 too...
Honza.
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