From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:18:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:18:10 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:33034 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:18:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:17:46 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alex Romosan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops with 2.4.8-pre5 Message-ID: <20010807221746.G24336@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <87bslrfx9n.fsf@adonis.lbl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bslrfx9n.fsf@adonis.lbl.gov> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Aug 07 2001, Alex Romosan wrote: > i got the following oops with kernel 2.4.8-pre5. i was just logged in > remotely, reading email with gnus and maybe i had just run dselect > (debian package installer): This should fix it. -- Jens Axboe --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sync_old_buffers-1 --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.8-pre5/fs/buffer.c Tue Aug 7 10:28:50 2001 +++ fs/buffer.c Tue Aug 7 22:17:51 2001 @@ -2581,13 +2472,17 @@ spin_lock(&lru_list_lock); bh = lru_list[BUF_DIRTY]; + if (!bh) + break; if (!time_before(jiffies, bh->b_flushtime)) continue; spin_unlock(&lru_list_lock); } run_task_queue(&tq_disk); - return 0; + break; } + + return 0; } int block_sync_page(struct page *page) --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--