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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: Liuwenyi <qingshenlwy@gmail.com>, strongzgy <strongzgy@gmail.com>,
	onlyflyer <onlyflyer@gmail.com>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ak <ak@linux.intel.com>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	miaox <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Yang Ruirui <ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>,
	meego-kernel <meego-kernel@meego.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid a NULL pointer in btrfs
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:52:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295452288-sup-8924@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110119141334.GA2544@localhost.localdomain>

Excerpts from Josef Bacik's message of 2011-01-19 09:14:02 -0500:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:08:13PM +0800, Liuwenyi wrote:
> > In Yang Ruirui's mail, the btrfs will create a oops. This is caused by a
> > null pointer in test_range_bit() while lock the spinlock.
> > 
> > So, It is necessary to add a pointer check into test_range_bit()
> > 
> 
> 
> NAK, the tree shouldn't be null coming into this function, something else is
> going wrong.  What oops is this?  Thanks,

What was your metadata blocksize for this oops?  This call should never
happen.

I think there is a larger problem, probably in the IO error handling
code since the trace had io errors beforehand.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19 14:08 [PATCH] Avoid a NULL pointer in btrfs Liuwenyi
2011-01-19 14:14 ` Josef Bacik
2011-01-19 15:52   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-01-20 12:26     ` Liuwenyi

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