From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: ext3 -> crash -> fsck -> readlink -> oops
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:48:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE46F73.60302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CE46CF0.E0C9BCC5@zip.com.au
Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
> I assume that was `fsck -fy'?
>
> You seem have a 4k symlink. I'd have expected fsck to detect that.
>
> It crashed because vfs_readlink ran off the end of the page.
>
Either that... or someone is relying on magic null termination that
isn't provided by fsck. Either way, the kernel shouldn't oops...
ext3_panic() perhaps, but not oops...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-17 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-17 0:50 ext3 -> crash -> fsck -> readlink -> oops H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-17 2:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 2:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-05-17 8:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-17 9:40 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-05-17 10:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-18 20:38 ` Andreas Dilger
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