Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 29-11-07 17:27:08, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:30:14 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> While running file system stress on nfs and cifs mounted partitions, the machine
>>>> drops to xmon
>>>>
>>>> 1:mon> e
>>>> cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000080a9f880]
>>>> pc: c0000000001392c8: .inotify_inode_queue_event+0x50/0x158
>>>> lr: c0000000001074d0: .vfs_link+0x204/0x298
>>>> sp: c000000080a9fb00
>>>> msr: 8000000000009032
>>>> dar: 280
>>>> dsisr: 40010000
>>>> current = 0xc0000000c8e6f670
>>>> paca = 0xc000000000512c00
>>>> pid = 2848, comm = fsstress
>>>> 1:mon> t
>>>> [c000000080a9fbd0] c0000000001074d0 .vfs_link+0x204/0x298
>>>> [c000000080a9fc70] c00000000010b6e0 .sys_linkat+0x134/0x1b4
>>>> [c000000080a9fe30] c00000000000872c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
>>>> --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 000000000ff1bdfc
>>>> SP (ffeaed10) is in userspace
>>>> 1:mon> r
>>>> R00 = c0000000001074d0 R16 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R01 = c000000080a9fb00 R17 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R02 = c00000000060c380 R18 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R03 = 0000000000000000 R19 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R04 = 0000000000000004 R20 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R05 = 0000000000000000 R21 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R06 = 0000000000000000 R22 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R07 = 0000000000000000 R23 = 0000000000000004
>>>> R08 = 0000000000000000 R24 = 0000000000000280
>>>> R09 = 0000000000000000 R25 = fffffffffffff000
>>>> R10 = 0000000000000001 R26 = c000000082827790
>>>> R11 = c0000000003963e8 R27 = c0000000828275a0
>>>> R12 = d000000000deec78 R28 = 0000000000000000
>>>> R13 = c000000000512c00 R29 = c00000007b18fcf0
>>>> R14 = 0000000000000000 R30 = c0000000005bc088
>>>> R15 = 0000000000000000 R31 = 0000000000000000
>>>> pc = c0000000001392c8 .inotify_inode_queue_event+0x50/0x158
>>>> lr = c0000000001074d0 .vfs_link+0x204/0x298
>>>> msr = 8000000000009032 cr = 24000882
>>>> ctr = c0000000003963e8 xer = 0000000000000000 trap = 300
>>>> dar = 0000000000000280 dsisr = 40010000
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The gdb output shows
>>>>
>>>> 0xc0000000001076d4 is in vfs_symlink (include/linux/fsnotify.h:108).
>>>> 103 * fsnotify_create - 'name' was linked in
>>>> 104 */
>>>> 105 static inline void fsnotify_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
>>>> 106 {
>>>> 107 inode_dir_notify(inode, DN_CREATE);
>>>> 108 inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_CREATE, 0, dentry->d_name.name,
>>>> 109 dentry->d_inode);
>>>> 110 audit_inode_child(dentry->d_name.name, dentry, inode);
>>>> 111 }
>>>> 112
>>>>
>>> If it is reproducible can you please try reverting
>>> inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes.patch?
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> reverting the patch inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes.patch, the
>> bug is not reproduced.
> OK, it's a problem with CIFS. Its cifs_hardlink() function doesn't call
> d_instantiate() and thus returns a dentry with d_inode set to NULL. I'm not
> sure if such behavior is really correct but anyway, attached is a new
> version of the patch which should handle it gracefully. Kamalesh, can you
> please give it a try? Thanks.
>
> Honza
Hi Jan,
Thanks, the patch fixes the bug.
--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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