Re: Oops when using growisofs

Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-22T21:31:41Z

On Sunday 22 June 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Evidently, alloc_page_buffers got an out of memory condition, which was not caught
> by create_empty_buffers. No idea how it should be handled, but the fact that it's
> not looks like a bug to me ;-).

Oh, btw: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=create_empty_buffers&btnG=Function+Search
finds 15 more instances of the same bug (and one other bug), across lots of
kernel versions and architectures. The bug has been there since we started
using git.