ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen), but it did

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Jan 11 01:01:50 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
> On 2007.01.07. 1:11, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >It sounds as if the caller of ufs_rename() is confused.  You could
> >try setting a breakpoint on the printf(), or change it to a panic()
> >to get a dump, and try to figure out who the caller is and what is
> >going on.
> >  
> Yes this would be very good, especially if this wouldn't be a production 
> machine or if I could reproduce this on a test system. But neither of 
> this are true. :(
> 
> Maybe I will try it on a sleepless night, in the maintenance window, 
> thanks for the idea.

Try forcing a fsck, sometimes bizarre FS panics are due to filesystem
corruption.

Kris
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