Re: BUG: warning at fs/inotify.c:181 with linux-2.6.18

["C.Y.M" <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> C.Y.M wrote:
>> Since I updated to 2.6.18, I have had the following warnings in my
>> syslog.  Is
>> this a known problem? Better yet, is there a solution to this?  I am
>> running on
>> a i686 (Athlon XP) 32 bit cpu compiled under gcc-3.4.6.
>>
>>
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
>> fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c0182a10>]
>> set_dentry_child_flags+0x170/0x190
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c0182adf>] remove_watch_no_event+0x5f/0x70
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c0182b08>]
>> inotify_remove_watch_locked+0x18/0x50
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c01833dc>] inotify_rm_wd+0x6c/0xb0
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c0183e98>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x38/0x60
>> Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel:  [<c0102d8f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> 
> I don't think it is a known problem. Is it reproduceable? Any idea what
> is making the inotify syscalls?
> 

The warning messages start about an hour or two after I boot into the 2.6.18
kernel.  I am not doing anything on the machine when it happens.  I don't see
any new processes starting up at that time either.  As soon as I boot back to
2.6.17.13, there are no more problems.  Also, the machine is not running X when
it occurs.

root@sid:~$ grep BUG /var/log/syslog
Oct  5 08:27:31 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()
Oct  5 11:46:36 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()
Oct  5 13:24:50 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()
Oct  5 15:17:55 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()
Oct  5 16:40:10 sid kernel: BUG: warning at
fs/inotify.c:181/set_dentry_child_flags()


Best Regards.
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