mtdchar kernel oops

[Fabio Estevam]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Joel Reardon <joel at clambassador.com> wrote:
> I think that this patch:
> "mtdchar: kill persistently held vfsmount"
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/314175
>
> has started causing kernel oops's when running ubiformat. The oops is
> occuring in fs/namespace.c's mnt_add_count() line:
>        this_cpu_add(mnt->mnt_pcp->mnt_count, n);

I also see kernel oops when running flash_eraseall on a SPI NOR flash.

If this patch is reverted the flash_eraseall operation is successful.