Re: Additional questions on your hang

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:54:11PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>...
> I wasn't able to trace it to an exact line of code, but I think I see
> what the problem is.
> 
> This patch moves the copy_to_user from smb_read_data after the test
> whether smb_read_data is null.  It's good not to dereference a pointer
> if you have a reason to test it for null afterward.
> 
> This patch has not been compiled or tested.
>...

Thanks, this patch works fine for me and after disassembling it seems 
you've found exactly the place where the kernel Oops'ed for me in the 
forcedirectio case.

But even with this patch applied, I had a freeze in the 
non-forcedirectio case, although much later than usual.
There seems to be more than one bug.  :-(

I'm currently trying whether there are still any problems in the 
forcedirectio case, and I'll report back as soon as I am able to provide 
any additional information.

> David Kleikamp

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Adrian

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