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Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> (akpm: a fix for this needs to go into 2.6.13, inotify + nfs
> trivially oopses otherwise, even if inotify isn't actively used)
This patch seems to have fixed it for me.
I upgraded to fdbd22dad31982b64a4e663fd056a8a7cfac9607 and applied this
patch on top of it, and I can't retrigger the oops. (It seemed rather
easy to hit on the other kernel)
So, I guess:
Seems-to-fix-it: Ryan Anderson <[email protected]>
> It looks like the following sequence is done in the wrong order.
> When vfs_unlink() is called from sys_unlink() it has taken a ref
> on the inode and sys_unlink() does the last iput() but when called
> from other callsites vfs_unlink() might do the last iput() and
> free inode, so inotify_inode_queue_event() will receive an already
> freed object and dereference an already freed object.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <[email protected]>
>
> Index: mm/fs/namei.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mm.orig/fs/namei.c 2005-08-07 12:06:16.000000000 +0200
> +++ mm/fs/namei.c 2005-08-07 18:17:20.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1869,8 +1869,8 @@
> /* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */
> if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) {
> struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> - d_delete(dentry);
> fsnotify_unlink(dentry, inode, dir);
> + d_delete(dentry);
> }
>
> return error;
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