* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> [161004 12:08]:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 03:59:15PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Jan is wrong - we do have per-struct-file serialization for getdents()
> > et.al. It might be a race between getdents() on *different* struct
> > file for the same directory, but ->private_data is not a problem.
>
> So the rb_insert_color() OOPS seems to indicate that the rbtree has
> gotten corrupted, and it hangs off of private_data.
Yes so it seems..
> And I've just checked the ext4.git tree and I can't see any changes in
> the dev branch (which I was just about to push to Linus) that would
> impact the readdir path for non-encrypted directories. So if it's a
> race on ->private_data I'm not sure what else might be going wrong.
>
> Hmm... Tony, what version was the last good version where it wouldn't
> reproduce for you? v4.7? Does it reproduce for you on v4.8?
Well I just found it's caused by my commit d776fc86b82f ("wlcore:
sdio: Populate config firmware data") and has nothing to do with
ext4, see the mail I just posted.
> Also, would you mind seeing if you can reproduce it on the dev
> branch of the ext4 git tree?
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git dev
Seems like there's nothing wrong with ext4, this is probably some
memory corruption issue.
Thanks everybody for help and sorry for the false ext4 alert.
Regards,
Tony
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