Re: [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time

Andi Kleen
2002-01-28T14:53:56Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:07:47PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:02:54AM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > >
> > > 2.5.3-pre5 + this patch still can't boot my system. I haven't had
> > > time to copy down oops at boot, will do if needed.
> >
> > Please do. I cannot see anything in the patch that should prevent bootup
> > though, so I would also recommend a make clean and recompile first just
> > to make sure it isn't a broken build.
>
> Probably the kmem_cache_create 'name too long' bug that Viro pointed out
> to me. fs/reiserfs/super.c:init_inodecache(). Change the name passed to
> kmem_cache_create to something shorter.

The patch he tried removed the check of the name length ;)

-Andi