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From: Ben Greear <greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Repeatable crash in 2.6.38 related to O_DIRECT
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:34:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9BA6F9.1050207@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110405162609.6776e264-4QP7MXygkU+dMjc06nkz3ljfA9RmPOcC@public.gmane.org>

On 04/05/2011 04:26 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:

> Does the attached patch fix it? It's probably stable material if so...

I'll test your patch.  I verified that cifs_file is NULL in cifsFileInfo_put
and protecting against that also solves the problem.

>
> FWIW, cifs doesn't handle O_DIRECT at all.

I know..and I warn my users when the open() call fails, but I still
let them attempt the file open.  Seems a decent test case after all :)

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 22:46 Repeatable crash in 2.6.38 related to O_DIRECT Ben Greear
     [not found] ` <4D9B9BB0.3030604-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-05 23:26   ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <20110405162609.6776e264-4QP7MXygkU+dMjc06nkz3ljfA9RmPOcC@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-05 23:33       ` Steve French
2011-04-05 23:34       ` Ben Greear [this message]
     [not found]         ` <4D9BA6F9.1050207-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-05 23:38           ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]             ` <20110405163802.778b55b3-4QP7MXygkU+dMjc06nkz3ljfA9RmPOcC@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-05 23:48               ` Ben Greear

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