nfsd, v4: oops in find_acceptable_alias, ppc32 Linux, post-2.6.27-rc1

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul Collins wrote:
> Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> writes:

>> Also, how old is the machine? Any chance you're just seeing random
>> memory corruption?
> 
> It's about four years old.  It was in storage for about six months and I
> got it repaired a few weeks ago (display cable and inverter).  The sort
> of crazy crap I've been reporting certainly smacks of memory corruption.
> But on the other hand, 2.6.25 (Debian's) and 2.6.26 (my own) have been
> trouble-free.
> 
While it is possible that the new kernel tickles a hardware bug and all 
the old ones don't, I would put my $ on the kernel being the issue.

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