Bug 352290

Summary:	WARNING: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Andreas Jaeger 2008-01-08 14:12:34 UTC

Just saw the following in dmesg on my x86-64 system running:
Linux reger 2.6.22.13-0.3-default #1 SMP 2007/11/19 15:02:58 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

WARNING: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff802af8a0>] set_dentry_child_flags+0x73/0x137
 [<ffffffff802af9c7>] remove_watch_no_event+0x63/0x71
 [<ffffffff802afad5>] inotify_remove_watch_locked+0x18/0x3b
 [<ffffffff802afdbe>] inotify_rm_wd+0x7e/0xa1
 [<ffffffff802b0351>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x46/0x61
 [<ffffffff80209c2e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2008-01-08 21:13:34 UTC

I think this is a duplicate of the bug Nick is tracking in 235818. The gist is that the test itself isn't very helpful and is apparently racy.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 235818 ***