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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] jbd2: replace potentially false assertion with if block
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:42:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308164258.GA30512@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9e943910803080840u251ade36j92612f6150de6cf9@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:40:46PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> > That doesn't make any sense.  They're initialized in module_init and
> >  destoryed in module_exit.  They can never be zero at journal_load time
> >  unless you get random memory corruption overwriting exactly that pointer
> >  with zero.
> 
> If jbd is a module, sure, but not if it is statically linked in. I
> have the stacktraces to prove it :)

That text above was in reply to Andreas comment about checking it in
journal_load.  Your fix obviously does make sense althrough doing it
differently as in my reply to your first series would be even better.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5e28cd633c71f6354a203a43000cbe5fef045589.1204844851.git.duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] jbd2: eliminate duplicated code in revocation table init/destroy functions Duane Griffin
2008-03-07  1:31 ` Duane Griffin
     [not found] ` <48afbb3a44aa24dc1e31835c14e86c3c6c1c3b0a.1204844851.git.duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31   ` [PATCH 2/3] jbd2: replace potentially false assertion with if block Duane Griffin
2008-03-07  1:31   ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-07 21:23   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-08 13:33     ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 15:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-08 16:40       ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 16:42         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-03-08 18:37           ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 18:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] ` <dcb02b202f5a84c79c9e8b1b0102e6ad52ed3b53.1204844851.git.duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31   ` [PATCH 3/3] jbd2: only create debugfs and stats entries if cache initialisation is successful Duane Griffin
2008-03-07  1:31   ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-07 21:24   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-07 21:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] jbd2: eliminate duplicated code in revocation table init/destroy functions Andreas Dilger
2008-03-08  0:05   ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-08 13:26     ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 13:20   ` Duane Griffin

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