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SubjectRe: [stable] [PATCH] ext3 -nobh option causes oops (2.6.17.7)
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:42:41PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> ext3 -nobh option causes kernel oops on files other than IFREG -
> since the modification to them are journalled anyway and the
> code expects to have buffer_head attached to it.
>
> We need this patch for stable series also.
>
> Thanks,
> Badari
>
> For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense.
> Modifications to them are journalled and needs buffer heads
> to do that. Without this patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers().
>
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>

Queued to -stable.

thanks,

greg k-h

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