Commit fd217f4d70172c526478f2bc76859e909fdfa674

Authored by Arjan van de Ven
Committed by Al Viro
1 parent 08b9fe6b12

[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>

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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);