[OpenAFS] Problems with OpenAFS 1.3.79 and Kernel 2.11.5

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Sergio Gelato wrote:

> In reaction to your original query I tried 1.3.81 on my Gentoo installation
> at home (amd64, gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6 which corresponds to kernel.org
> 2.6.11.6, no SMP, no CONFIG_PREEMPT) and got reproducible kernel oopses
> when mounting /afs . Apparently a null pointer reference while acquiring
> afs_global_lock in afs_linux_open(). The fault was at default_wait_function+0,
> if memory serves. Could also have been in lock_kernel(), except I got the
> impression that lock_kernel() is a no-op on uniprocessor builds.
>
> Has this been seen by others? Perhaps even fixed already?

I wonder if this is the inode semaphore the configure test was 
(incompletely) added for in 1.3.81, maybe...