lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Jul]   [17]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
Patch in this message
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: ext3 on latest -git: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000c
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:39:24PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> wrote:
> >> Yeah, the full log exists at
> >>
> >> http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/linux/log-1216293934.txt
> >>
> >> I think this is the interesting part:
> >
> > Hmm well the journal should have aborted, but it looks like it didn't,
> > are you mounting with errors=continue by any chance? Thanks much,
>
> No, this is the command I used:
>
> mount -o loop disk mnt
>
> I think this looks interesting:
>
> EXT3-fs error (device loop0) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure
>
> The code in ext3_reserve_inode_write() is here:
>
> err = ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, iloc->bh);
> if (err) {
> brelse(iloc->bh);
> iloc->bh = NULL;
> }
>
> Maybe it should do something different here?
>
> But I don't know :-)
>
> Thanks for helping out!
>
>

Can you try this patch out and see if it fixes the problem? I didn't compile
test it, so you may need to tweak somethings, but it should work. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>


Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -2023,13 +2023,27 @@ static void ext3_clear_blocks(handle_t *
unsigned long count, __le32 *first, __le32 *last)
{
__le32 *p;
+ int ret;
+
if (try_to_extend_transaction(handle, inode)) {
if (bh) {
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext3_journal_dirty_metadata");
- ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
+ ret = ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
+ if (ret) {
+ ext3_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
+ return;
+ }
}
- ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
- ext3_journal_test_restart(handle, inode);
+ ret = ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+ if (ret)
+ return;
+
+ ret = ext3_journal_test_restart(handle, inode);
+ if (ret) {
+ ext3_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (bh) {
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "retaking write access");
ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-07-17 16:21    [W:0.057 / U:0.760 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site