Potential problem with kernel 2.2.4

Linus Torvalds has released a one-liner fix to the 2.2.4 kernel,
which contains a bug that might cause problems on heavily loaded
servers.

Linus writes:

There’s a potential problem under certain load conditions with
2.2.4, which should be fixed by this one-liner. If you have trouble
with 2.2.4 (apart from the obvious one where you have to add “,
NULL” to two places in kernel/acct.c), would you try this simple
thing?

Note that I _really_ want to hear about if if this makes any
difference at all. It’s a real bug, but I think it needs some
rather pathological usage patterns to actually become a real
problem. So I’d like to know if it actually makes a difference in
real life…

Linus

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--- v2.2.4/linux/fs/buffer.c    Tue Mar 23 14:35:48 1999
+++ linux/fs/buffer.c   Wed Mar 24 09:11:53 1999
@@ -854,6 +854,7 @@
        return;
    }
    remove_from_queues(buf);
+   buf->b_count = 0;
    put_last_free(buf);
 }