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[PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free

Hi Al,

remember that debug session we did at KS? You suggested this patch back
then....

From 7751eaf30474b8cbfaea64795805a17eab05ac53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:51:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fs: add a sanity check in d_free

we're seeing some corruption in the dentry->d_alias list that
appears like a free of an entry still on the list; this patch
adds a WARN_ON() to catch this scenario, as suggested by Al Viro

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

authored by

Arjan van de Ven and committed by
Al Viro
fd217f4d 08b9fe6b

+1
+1
fs/dcache.c
··· 69 69 70 70 static void __d_free(struct dentry *dentry) 71 71 { 72 + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dentry->d_alias)); 72 73 if (dname_external(dentry)) 73 74 kfree(dentry->d_name.name); 74 75 kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);