Re: [FIX] kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:1723!

[Andrew Morton]

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 
>  There is a race between unshare_files() and the following steal_locks(). As a 
>  consequence, steal_locks() may steal some additional FL_POSIX locks that 
>  don't belong to the current thread. This triggers a BUG in 
>  locks_remove_flock().

Well based on Trond's words it's not clear whether we should be proceeding
this way.  Although I think he said "the code is crap and someone should
rewrite it".  Fine, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be fixing oopses in
the current stuff.

I fixed up the big reject which this threw - it's getting a bit optimistic
sending out patches against 2.6.5...
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