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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@upb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] null-pointer deref (perhaps reiserfs3)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:34:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102368869.8908.1.camel@watt.suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041206132712.084ac2b3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:27 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sven Köhler <skoehler@upb.de> wrote:
> >
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=1M count=40
> > > mkreiserfs -f image
> > > mount -o loop image /mnt/test
> > > cp -r /etc/ /mnt/test
> > > 
> > > The kernel will Oops, and cp will segfault.
> > 
> > Well, this won't make sense to you, if don't tell you, that "cp -r /etc/ 
> > /mnt/test" copies more, than the reiserfs can take. In other words:
> > reiserfs crashes if there's no more free diskspace.
> > 
> 
> Could you please test 2.6.10-rc3?

Anything 2.6.10-rc1 or newer should fix it, I sent him the reiserfs
small filesystem patch earlier today.

-chris




      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 22:31 [BUG] null-pointer deref (perhaps reiserfs3) Sven Köhler
2004-12-06 16:35 ` Sven Köhler
2004-12-06 16:44   ` Sven Köhler
2004-12-06 21:27     ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-06 21:34       ` Chris Mason [this message]

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