From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ext3 -> crash -> fsck -> readlink -> oops
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:48:19 -0700
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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