When using an external device for the journal, jbd2_stats_proc_init() wants to use journal->j_dev in its call to bdevname() but it's not assigned yet, resulting in an oops. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- linux.orig/fs/jbd2/journal.c 2007-10-25 11:36:25.772354262 -0500 +++ linux/fs/jbd2/journal.c 2007-10-25 11:36:35.058278242 -0500 @@ -1035,11 +1035,11 @@ journal = NULL; goto out; } - jbd2_stats_proc_init(journal); journal->j_dev = bdev; journal->j_fs_dev = fs_dev; journal->j_blk_offset = start; journal->j_maxlen = len; + jbd2_stats_proc_init(journal); bh = __getblk(journal->j_dev, start, journal->j_blocksize); J_ASSERT(bh != NULL); - 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