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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>,
	Hans-Joachim Baader <hjb@pro-linux.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac2
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 22:03:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <264430000.978836609@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A57D909.F6B9F8B0@innominate.de>



On Sunday, January 07, 2001 03:48:41 AM +0100 Daniel Phillips
<phillips@innominate.de> wrote:

> A null buffer was passed by kupdate_one_transaction (looks like a
> Reiserfs function) to __refile_buffer.  Chris?
> 

Known bug, there should be another reiserfs release soon that includes the
fix.  The problem is that another transaction can set cn->bh to null while it
is being waited on.  The fix is to let someone else refile it later.

-chris

--- linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c.1	Fri Jan  5 15:37:12 2001
+++ linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c	Fri Jan  5 15:37:15 2001
@@ -1146,7 +1146,6 @@
             clear_bit(BLOCK_NEEDS_FLUSH, &cn->state) ;
             if (!pjl && cn->bh) {
                 wait_on_buffer(cn->bh) ;
-		refile_buffer(cn->bh) ;
             }
             /* check again, someone could have logged while we scheduled */
             pjl = find_newer_jl_for_cn(cn) ;



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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-07  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07  2:31 Oops in 2.4.0-ac2 Hans-Joachim Baader
2001-01-07  2:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-07  3:03   ` Chris Mason [this message]

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