On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:12:49 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's much more visible that some printk. I still has an unexplained oops
> in proc, so let's leave it for a while.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
>  fs/proc/inode.c |    7 +------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/proc/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> @@ -37,12 +37,7 @@ void de_put(struct proc_dir_entry *de)
>  {
>       if (de) {       
>               lock_kernel();          
> -             if (!atomic_read(&de->count)) {
> -                     printk("de_put: entry %s already free!\n", de->name);
> -                     unlock_kernel();
> -                     return;
> -             }
> -
> +             BUG_ON(atomic_read(&de->count) == 0);
>               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) {
>                       if (de->deleted) {
>                               printk("de_put: deferred delete of %s\n",

I don't see that an error in here _requires_ that we nuke the machine. 
Surely we can emit a warning and then recover in some fashion?

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