Re: de_put: entry sys already free!

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 20:30:51 EST


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Skip Ford wrote:

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> Just an FYI, I've received this syslog message twice now with
> 2.5.4-pre3: 'de_put: entry sys already free!'.
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> It seems to be harmless, but I'd thought I'd post it. It's just a
> procfs error message, but maybe somebody out there has a clue why it's
> being generated (aside from what the message says).

Fix already merged and no, it's not quite harmless.

--- fs/proc/base.c Thu Feb 7 19:25:52 2002
+++ /tmp/base.c Fri Feb 8 18:36:41 2002
@@ -1003,8 +1003,7 @@
                 ei = PROC_I(inode);
                 inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
                 inode->i_ino = fake_ino(0, PROC_PID_INO);
- ei->file = NULL;
- ei->task = NULL;
+ ei->pde = NULL;
                 inode->i_mode = S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO;
                 inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0;
                 inode->i_size = 64;

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