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

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

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 06/10/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> 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?
> 
> It is a known problem.
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.1/1209.html
> 

Thank you for the confirmation.  Please include me in this thread if someone
finds the answer. This bug seems to occur very frequently on my machine with
2.6.18.1 so I have been forced to revert back to 2.6.17.13 until I can fix it.

Best Regards.

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