It seems this patch that went into 2.6.17.8 should also be included in the 2.6.16.x branch, or do I miss anything? TIA Adrian On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:40:03PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> > > For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. Modifications > to them are journalled and needs buffer heads to do that. Without this > patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers(). > > Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > > --- > fs/ext3/inode.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > --- linux-2.6.17.7.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c > +++ linux-2.6.17.7/fs/ext3/inode.c > @@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ retry: > ret = PTR_ERR(handle); > goto out; > } > - if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH)) > + if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode)) > ret = nobh_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext3_get_block); > else > ret = block_prepare_write(page, from, to, ext3_get_block); > @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_commit_write(s > if (new_i_size > EXT3_I(inode)->i_disksize) > EXT3_I(inode)->i_disksize = new_i_size; > > - if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH)) > + if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode)) > ret = nobh_commit_write(file, page, from, to); > else > ret = generic_commit_write(file, page, from, to); > @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_writepage(stru > goto out_fail; > } > > - if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH)) > + if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode)) > ret = nobh_writepage(page, ext3_get_block, wbc); > else > ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc); > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
