From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:39:03 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1124450088.2294.31.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <20050819142025.GA29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1124466246.2294.65.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Al Viro , vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, Andrew Morton , linware@sh.cvut.cz, fsdevel , lkml Return-path: Received: from ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.130]:23254 "EHLO ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932718AbVHSVjL (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:39:11 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > It does disable link caching. But I didn't make this up. This is exactly > > what smbfs uses. I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything > > smbfs does anyway... > > Can you test whether the untested test-patch I sent out seems to work for > your case that bugs out? You'll probably get a few new "initialization > from incompatible pointer type" warnings, but I do believe that they > should be harmless at least on normal architectures. Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. I am afraid the actual testing will have to wait for tomorrow as I was actually on the way to bed and the make modules is taking forever or at least longer than I can keep my eyes open... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/