From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759775AbYGFV1g (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:27:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757888AbYGFV13 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:27:29 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33250 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757530AbYGFV12 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:27:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:27:26 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: Re: Kernel oops (bug) in fs/buffers.c:create_empty_buffers Message-ID: <20080706142726.41cb58f1@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080706133100.8d8ed269.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080706132302.5ca87f4f@infradead.org> <20080706133100.8d8ed269.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:31:00 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > isofs has a habit of returning impossible block sizes and the > > while ((offset -= size) >= 0) { > > consequently loops zero times and alloc_page_buffers() returns null. > > Someone was having a look at it - maybe Jan? > > I assume that the kernloops.org records link back to the original > report somewhere but I can't find it? http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=create_empty_buffers has two: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696582 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13658 -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org