The patch titled Add a refcount check in dput() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is add-a-refcount-check-in-dput.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Add a refcount check in dput() From: menage@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Menage) Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to check for passing an unreferenced dentry to dput(). This is analogous to the similar check in dget(), and will make reference-counting bugs in filesystems more immediately obvious. (I just spent a while debugging an oops that turned out to be due to broken fs reference counting.) Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/dcache.c~add-a-refcount-check-in-dput fs/dcache.c --- a/fs/dcache.c~add-a-refcount-check-in-dput +++ a/fs/dcache.c @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ void dput(struct dentry *dentry) if (!dentry) return; + WARN_ON_ONCE(!atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)); repeat: if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1) might_sleep(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from menage@xxxxxxxxxx are cpuset-zero-malloc-revert-the-old-cpuset-fix.patch task-containersv11-basic-task-container-framework.patch task-containersv11-basic-task-container-framework-fix.patch task-containersv11-basic-task-container-framework-containers-fix-refcount-bug.patch task-containersv11-add-tasks-file-interface.patch task-containersv11-add-fork-exit-hooks.patch task-containersv11-add-container_clone-interface.patch task-containersv11-add-container_clone-interface-containers-fix-refcount-bug.patch task-containersv11-add-procfs-interface.patch task-containersv11-shared-container-subsystem-group-arrays.patch task-containersv11-shared-container-subsystem-group-arrays-avoid-lockdep-warning.patch task-containersv11-shared-container-subsystem-group-arrays-include-fix.patch task-containersv11-automatic-userspace-notification-of-idle-containers.patch task-containersv11-make-cpusets-a-client-of-containers.patch task-containersv11-example-cpu-accounting-subsystem.patch task-containersv11-simple-task-container-debug-info-subsystem.patch add-containerstats-v3.patch add-containerstats-v3-fix.patch containers-implement-namespace-tracking-subsystem.patch containers-implement-namespace-tracking-subsystem-fix-order-of-container-subsystems-in-init-kconfig.patch pid-namespaces-rework-forget_original_parent.patch pid-namespaces-move-exit_task_namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-introduce-ms_kernmount-flag.patch pid-namespaces-prepare-proc_flust_task-to-flush-entries-from-multiple-proc-trees.patch pid-namespaces-introduce-struct-upid.patch pid-namespaces-add-support-for-pid-namespaces-hierarchy.patch pid-namespaces-make-alloc_pid-free_pid-and-put_pid-work-with-struct-upid.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-obtain-pid-numbers.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-find-the-task-by-its-numerical-ids.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-find-the-task-by-its-numerical-ids-fix.patch pid-namespaces-move-alloc_pid-lower-in-copy_process.patch pid-namespaces-make-proc-have-multiple-superblocks-one-for-each-namespace.patch pid-namespaces-miscelaneous-preparations-for-pid-namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-allow-cloning-of-new-namespace.patch pid-namespaces-make-proc_flush_task-actually-from-entries-from-multiple-namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-initialize-the-namespaces-proc_mnt.patch pid-namespaces-create-a-slab-cache-for-struct-pid_namespace.patch pid-namespaces-allow-signalling-container-init.patch pid-namespaces-destroy-pid-namespace-on-inits-death.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user-fix.patch pid-namespaces-remove-the-struct-pid-unneeded-fields.patch memory-controller-add-documentation.patch memory-controller-resource-counters-v7.patch memory-controller-containers-setup-v7.patch memory-controller-accounting-setup-v7.patch memory-controller-memory-accounting-v7.patch memory-controller-task-migration-v7.patch memory-controller-add-per-container-lru-and-reclaim-v7.patch memory-controller-add-per-container-lru-and-reclaim-v7-fix.patch memory-controller-improve-user-interface.patch memory-controller-oom-handling-v7.patch memory-controller-add-switch-to-control-what-type-of-pages-to-limit-v7.patch memory-controller-make-page_referenced-container-aware-v7.patch memory-controller-make-charging-gfp-mask-aware.patch add-a-refcount-check-in-dput.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html