Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:13:22 +0100 | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: Oops on 2.4.17 possibly UMS-DOS related |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:36:37PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > > X oopsed once on me after about a week of uptime, and now whenever I try > to run "startx" I get the message > > umsdos_lookup_x: tmp/..LINK256 negative after link > > followed by the below oops. > > System is slackware 8.0 with a hand-compiled stock 2.4.17 kernel, > 64MB RAM, Pentium II 300Mhz, Matrox Millenium II graphics card. > Filesystem is a 4GB vfat drive with umsdos running on top. It worked fine > until this happened... rebooting doesn't help, nor does "umssync" and I > can't figure out which file is causing the problem (assuming it really is > a UMS DOS problem, the decoded oops seems a bit odd, but I have made sure > the system map file is the proper one).
Perhaps this helps?
--- linux-2.4.17/fs/umsdos/dir.c.O Wed Jan 30 04:08:16 2002 +++ linux-2.4.17/fs/umsdos/dir.c Wed Jan 30 04:08:43 2002 @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ out_add: ret = 0; out_dput: - if (dret && dret != dentry) + if (!IS_ERR(dret) && dret != dentry) d_drop(dret); dput(dret); out:
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