From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:04:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:03:51 -0500 Received: from roc-24-95-203-215.rochester.rr.com ([24.95.203.215]:267 "EHLO d185fcbd7.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:03:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 22:03:29 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: Daniel Phillips , Hans-Joachim Baader , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac2 Message-ID: <264430000.978836609@tiny> In-Reply-To: <3A57D909.F6B9F8B0@innominate.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6b1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, January 07, 2001 03:48:41 AM +0100 Daniel Phillips 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) ; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/