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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Mario Hermann <ario@eikon.tum.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:21:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010301172145.T21518@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9E66BB.70FB0C75@eikon.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <3A9E66BB.70FB0C75@eikon.tum.de>; from ario@eikon.tum.de on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:11:55PM +0100

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On Thu, Mar 01 2001, Mario Hermann wrote:
> I tried the following commands with 2.4.2-ac7:
> 
> losetup /dev/loop0 test.dat
> losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0
> mke2fs /dev/loop1
> 
> My System reboots immediatly. I tried it with 2.4.2-ac4,ac5 too -> same
> effect.
> 
> With 2.4.2 it hangs immediatly.

This should make it work again.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.2-ac7/drivers/block/loop.c	Thu Mar  1 15:46:14 2001
+++ drivers/block/loop.c	Thu Mar  1 17:17:13 2001
@@ -397,10 +397,10 @@
 	if (!buffer_locked(rbh))
 		BUG();
 
-	if (MINOR(rbh->b_dev) >= max_loop)
+	if (MINOR(rbh->b_rdev) >= max_loop)
 		goto out;
 
-	lo = &loop_dev[MINOR(rbh->b_dev)];
+	lo = &loop_dev[MINOR(rbh->b_rdev)];
 	spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
 	if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound)
 		goto inactive;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-01 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-01 15:11 report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7 Mario Hermann
2001-03-01 15:22 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-01 16:21 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-03-01 17:00   ` Mario Hermann
2001-03-02 14:26   ` Mario Hermann
2001-03-02 15:07     ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-02 15:28     ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-02 17:50       ` Mario Hermann
2001-03-03  3:19         ` Jens Axboe

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