Re: 2.6.14.3 - sysfs duplicated dentry bug

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:25:11PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 18:55, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:48:41PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > > Q: Since when is a directory entry allowed to be duplicate?
> > > A: Since Linux 2.6.14!
> > >
> > > $ uname -r
> > > 2.6.14.3-bs2-mroute
> > >
> > > The only sysfs-related change is the use of a custom DSDT, which is new
> > > to this kernel.
> 
> > Known bug, fixed in the 2.6.15-rc kernel tree.  It was a timer
> > registering with the same name in two places :(
> 
> Sorry for answering so late (my latency in checking "spam" false positives is 
> big) but shouldn't this have been backported to -stable?

It should, if someone sends the patch to do so to the stable@ email
address :)

> Also is this known to cause hangs at unmount time (I experience them
> at times and they're not network FSs-related) ?

Not that I have heard about, but you never know...

thanks,

greg k-h
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