Re: ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> 
> Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > It looks like ext3 does not work if you do not use an external
> > journal device - the journal_bdev field is not initialized and
> > ext3_put_super goes belly up:
> 
> I have seen the umount oops -but- not 100% of the time. No time
>  to copy the oops text since my laptop powers off, and as the
>  issue occurred two times out of five or six, I haven't yet had
>  a very strong need to hunt this further, confident someone more
>  clueful than me (possibly the vast majority of l-k :) would do
>  very soon. It looks like it happened. Heh. As always.
> 
> > At the very least it needs this:
> 
> [snipped patch]
> 
> OK, going to the usual patch/build/reboot/test sequence now.

Of course the last 252p10 shutdown saw the oops, leaving me
 with the doubt that I didn't attend all the shutdowns :/

And of course the patch makes the oops go away (four reboots
 in a row without any problem). Thanks !

Ciao,

--alessandro

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