Re: [BUG] 2.4.10/0.9.10 "VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer"

[Andrew Morton]

Ryan Mack wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have an oops or a stack trace to report where this
> message came from, but at least maybe this report can alert someone who
> can spot the bug in the code.  This occurred under light usage on an ext3
> partition built on a 2 disk RAID-1 mirrored array.
> 
> The array was either two IDE disks using data-ordered mode or two SCSI
> disks using data-journal mode.
> 

Yes, that shouldn't be happening.  If it is reproducible, could
you please add

	print_buffer_trace(buf);

to the very end of fs/buffer.c:__brelse() and recompile with
CONFIG_BUFFER_TRACE=y?

Thanks.