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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-29T21:37:15Z

On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 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.

Well, Jens, what's your opinion about that?

Rafael