On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:02 -0700, Kevin wrote: > Ben, > > I tried running ls repeatedly with no problems other than the missing > files. This worked for a few minutes until it hit the error again. I > did not see anything on the console as the system rebooted upon > hitting the error. The kern.log file shows this just before the > system rebooted: > > CIFS VFS: RFC1001 size 35 bigger than SMB for Mid=749 > Sep 16 09:48:31 webdata kernel: [ 475.319384] Bad SMB: : dump of 48 bytes of > data at 0xf6a10980 > Sep 16 09:48:31 webdata kernel: [ 475.319394] 00000023 424d53ff 00000074 > 00018800 # . . . � S M B t . . . . . . . > Sep 16 09:48:31 webdata kernel: [ 475.319402] 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 0cec0000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . � . > Sep 16 09:48:31 webdata kernel: [ 475.319410] 02ed0000 6a00ff00 02000000 > 00003800 . . � . . � . j . . . . . 8 . . > Sep 16 09:48:54 webdata kernel: [ 501.027724] CIFS VFS: server not > responding > Sep 16 09:48:54 webdata kernel: [ 501.027724] CIFS VFS: No response to cmd > 116 mid 749 > > I have found the following bug report which seems to describe the same > problem. > > http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-kernel/216752-bug-509428-bug-509428-libsmbclient-system-freeze-when-accessing-samba-cifs-share-network-appliances-storage.html
That could be the same bug. It was apparently fixed somewhere between 2.6.26 and 2.6.29, but the precise change was not identified. This could be it, though: commit 76c510ad2e7d56cfe8f2cc7b23783e5c687cf704 Author: Shirish Pargaonkar <shiri...@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jul 24 14:48:33 2008 +0000 [CIFS] Fix possible double free if search immediately after search rewind fails Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shiri...@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfre...@us.ibm.com> diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c index 83f3069..5f40ed3 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c @@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ static int find_cifs_entry(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *pTcon, else cifs_buf_release(cifsFile->srch_inf. ntwrk_buf_start); + cifsFile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start = NULL; } rc = initiate_cifs_search(xid, file); if (rc) { --- END --- Can you test whether this patch fixes the bug? Instructions for rebuilding a Debian kernel package are here: <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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