Re: [Bug #14894] pohmelfs: NULL pointer dereference

Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-12-29T16:35:17Z

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14894
> Subject : pohmelfs: NULL pointer dereference
> Submitter : Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
> Date : 2009-12-02 1:11 (28 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125971633107940&w=4
> Handled-By : Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>

Yes, I saw this regression and there is a patch to handle this, but it
kind of disables sync at all. Jens Axboe, who introduced per-bdi
writeback patches, did not yet reply.

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Evgeniy Polyakov