The patch titled fix BUG in reiserfs_delete_xattrs has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opend-files-reiserfs-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was withdrawn ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix BUG in reiserfs_delete_xattrs From: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> Le 12.10.2007 06:31, Andrew Morton a écrit : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/ /home is mounted with the following options: /dev/mapper/vglinux1-lvhome on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr) I guess that beagled (the Beagle desktop search daemon) has populated user xattrs on almost all files. Now, when I delete a file, two BUGs occur and the system hangs. Here is the stack for the first BUG (the second one is very similar): [partially hand copied stack] _fput fput reiserfs_delete_xattrs reiserfs_delete_inode generic_delete_inode generic_drop_inode iput do_unlinkat sys_unlink sys_enter_past_esp I reported a similar BUG in 2.6.22-rc8-mm2 (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/27/235). Dave Hansen sent a patch for it, I tested it and it was OK for 2.6.22-rc8-mm2. I tried this patch on 2.6.23-mm1, and it fixed the BUGs here too. ---- The bug is caused by reiserfs creating a special 'struct file' with a NULL vfsmount. /* Opens a file pointer to the attribute associated with inode */ static struct file *open_xa_file(const struct inode *inode, const char *name, int flags) { ... fp = dentry_open(xafile, NULL, O_RDWR); /* dentry_open dputs the dentry if it fails */ As Christoph just said, this is somewhat of a bandaid. But, it shouldn't hurt anything. Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/file_table.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/file_table.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opend-files-reiserfs-fix fs/file_table.c --- a/fs/file_table.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opend-files-reiserfs-fix +++ a/fs/file_table.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ void fastcall __fput(struct file *file) fops_put(file->f_op); if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) { put_write_access(inode); - if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) + if (!special_file(inode->i_mode) && mnt) mnt_drop_write(mnt); } put_pid(file->f_owner.pid); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx are origin.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opend-files-reiserfs-fix.patch reiser4-drop-size-argument-from-bio_endio-and-bi_end_io.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