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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_superblock_csum_set with mounted filesystem
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:01:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130313190141.GF5604@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130313185911.GA1446@jtriplet-mobl1>

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:59:13AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I frequently test kernel changes by booting them with kvm's -kernel
> option, with -hda pointing to my host system's root filesystem, and
> -snapshot to prevent writing to (and likely corrupting) that root
> filesystem.  I tried this with a kernel built from git commit
> 7c6baa304b841673d3a55ea4fcf9a5cbf7a1674b, with a stock x86-64 "make
> defconfig", and got a kernel panic:

Can you send me the output of "dumpe2fs -h" on your host system's root
file system?

Thanks,

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 18:59 NULL pointer dereference in ext4_superblock_csum_set with mounted filesystem Josh Triplett
2013-03-13 19:01 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-03-13 19:10   ` Josh Triplett
2013-03-14  4:08     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-14 17:42       ` Josh Triplett
2013-03-14 18:02         ` Theodore Ts'o

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