From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932346AbWHCHRj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 03:17:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932355AbWHCHRj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 03:17:39 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:12683 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932346AbWHCHRi (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 03:17:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:13:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: lkml , stable@kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3 -nobh option causes oops (2.6.17.7) Message-ID: <20060803071308.GH26354@kroah.com> References: <1154032961.29920.17.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154032961.29920.17.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:42:41PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > ext3 -nobh option causes kernel oops on files other than IFREG - > since the modification to them are journalled anyway and the > code expects to have buffer_head attached to it. > > We need this patch for stable series also. > > Thanks, > Badari > > For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. > Modifications to them are journalled and needs buffer heads > to do that. Without this patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers(). > > Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty Queued to -stable. thanks, greg k-h