From: Octave <oles@ovh.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: problem with Andrew's patch ext3
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:26:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021215182645.GS23211@ovh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DFCC815.3C0010F2@digeo.com>
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:21:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Octave wrote:
> >
> > Hello Andrew,
> >
> > I patched 2.4.20 with your patch found out on http://lwn.net/Articles/17447/
> > and I have a big problem with:
> > once server is booted on 2.4.20 with your patch, when I want to reboot
> > with /sbin/reboot, server makes a Segmentation fault and it crashs.
>
> It works OK here. Could you please check that the kernel was fully
> rebuilt? Do a `make clean'? If the kernel was not fully rebuilt
> then things will go wrong because a structure size was changed.
yes, since I took a new tar.gz
made dep && make clean && make bzImage
I did it 5 times (for differents servers).
Octave
>
> There is a locking error in that patch, and it needs revision. But
> that wouldn't explain this crash.
>
> And there is an unrelated use-after-free bug which could cause problems
> if the fs runs out of space or inodes.
>
> I'll get some fixes out later today. It hasn't been a good week.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-15 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-15 14:40 problem with Andrew's patch ext3 Octave
2002-12-15 15:15 ` Vergoz Michael (SYSDOOR)
2002-12-15 18:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-15 18:26 ` Octave [this message]
2002-12-15 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-15 19:59 ` Octave
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