Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Sat, 06 Jan 2001 22:03:29 -0500 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac2 |
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On Sunday, January 07, 2001 03:48:41 AM +0100 Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de> wrote:
> A null buffer was passed by kupdate_one_transaction (looks like a > Reiserfs function) to __refile_buffer. Chris? >
Known bug, there should be another reiserfs release soon that includes the fix. The problem is that another transaction can set cn->bh to null while it is being waited on. The fix is to let someone else refile it later.
-chris
--- linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c.1 Fri Jan 5 15:37:12 2001 +++ linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Fri Jan 5 15:37:15 2001 @@ -1146,7 +1146,6 @@ clear_bit(BLOCK_NEEDS_FLUSH, &cn->state) ; if (!pjl && cn->bh) { wait_on_buffer(cn->bh) ; - refile_buffer(cn->bh) ; } /* check again, someone could have logged while we scheduled */ pjl = find_newer_jl_for_cn(cn) ;
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