Subject: Re: kern/9944: panic: lockmgr: locking against myself
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/03/2000 09:37:57
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > I think I've figured out what the problem is, but it's REALLY weird. It
> > looks like cache_lookup() returned you an ffs vnode, which is REALLY
> > wrong.
> 
> Hmm.  Any chance it's a lookup of .. from the top directory of the mounted
> filesystem?

It shouldn't be. lookup() is supposed to catch that and lookup .. in the
mounted-on node. Thus the XXX_lookup() routines won't ever cross out of
their file system.

Take care,

Bill