From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_superblock_csum_set with mounted filesystem Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:01:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20130313190141.GF5604@thunk.org> References: <20130313185911.GA1446@jtriplet-mobl1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger To: Josh Triplett Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130313185911.GA1446@jtriplet-mobl1> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:59:13AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > I frequently test kernel changes by booting them with kvm's -kernel > option, with -hda pointing to my host system's root filesystem, and > -snapshot to prevent writing to (and likely corrupting) that root > filesystem. I tried this with a kernel built from git commit > 7c6baa304b841673d3a55ea4fcf9a5cbf7a1674b, with a stock x86-64 "make > defconfig", and got a kernel panic: Can you send me the output of "dumpe2fs -h" on your host system's root file system? Thanks, - Ted