From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265137AbTLRGZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:25:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265141AbTLRGZq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:25:46 -0500 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:6272 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265137AbTLRGZp (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:25:45 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa1 ext3 oops From: David Woodhouse To: Jamie Clark Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3FE14706.3070003@metaparadigm.com> References: <3FA713B9.3040405@metaparadigm.com> <20031104102816.GB2984@x30.random> <3FA79308.3070300@metaparadigm.com> <20031206010505.GB14904@dualathlon.random> <3FD7D78A.4080409@metaparadigm.com> <1071661358.13152.26.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <3FE14706.3070003@metaparadigm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1071728709.5316.2.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7.dwmw2.1) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:25:09 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:19 +0800, Jamie Clark wrote: > The first oops ocurred after 4 or 5 days. My second run crashed in the > first night, this time in filemap.c: precheck_file_write(). > This oops seemed to be at or near the first dereference of inode, before > the f_flags test. > > /* FIXME: this is for backwards compatibility with 2.4 */ > if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && (file->f_flags & O_APPEND)) > *ppos = pos = inode->i_size; Odd. And what's 'inode' then? What compiler are you using? > Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB all that I need? Yes, I believe so. -- dwmw2