Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.21.4 Distribution: Debian/testing Hardware Environment: dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz Software Environment: Problem Description: dmesg emits: [2124918.308441] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. [2124918.308526] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. [2373333.488796] BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags() [2373333.488865] [<c107eb51>] set_dentry_child_flags+0xc4/0x14b [2373333.488913] [<c107ec2b>] remove_watch_no_event+0x53/0x5f [2373333.488953] [<c107ed2f>] inotify_remove_watch_locked+0x12/0x3e [2373333.488996] [<c105ac31>] vfs_write+0xe9/0x118 [2373333.489030] [<c107f013>] inotify_rm_wd+0x60/0x8d [2373333.489069] [<c107f4cb>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x38/0x54 [2373333.489107] [<c1003e02>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [2373333.489144] ======================= Steps to reproduce:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7785 ***