Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756138AbXIRJU0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:20:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753462AbXIRJUT (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:20:19 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43916 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753218AbXIRJUS (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:20:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:20:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Chinner Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing Message-ID: <20070918092013.GA1352@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , David Chinner , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20070918014537.GK23367404@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070918014537.GK23367404@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 14 On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:45:37AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > No idea - it looks like dkpg was trying to remove a directory on the > same path the lookup was and both have gone splat in __d_lookup on > the same dentry. Something happened in those 180 days that left a > landmine that was tripped over here, I think. I can't see any way of > tracking it down from this, but thanks for reporting it anyway, This looks a lot like the i_sem leak that Vlad debugged. Do you remember where this was fixed? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/