On 2011-01-24 15:50 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> reports: > > > We were just having some NFS server troubles, and my client machine > > running 2.6.38-rc1+ (specifically, commit 2b1caf6ed7b888c95) crashed > > hard (syslog output appended to this mail). [...] > I was able to reproduce this BUG on my client running 2.6.38-rc2 > from earlier today. Here is a proposed fix. I can't reproduce the > BUG with this patch applied. > > However, my reproducer hit the BUG in nlmsvc_release_host(). Nick hit > roughly the same BUG in nlmclnt_release_host(), which suggests his > "client" was also acting as a server. Yeah, there are NFS exports on the client machine as well; although as nobody had them mounted (and due to the timing of the crash) I hadn't considered them. > The symptoms are similar enough that I believe this patch should be > sufficient to address both cases. I'll try the patch, but since I don't know how to reproduce the failure (rebooting the server just to see if it crashes again isn't an option), I'll have to take your word for it. Thanks, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
