On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:47:20 +0100 "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While freeing indirect blocks we attach a journal head to the parent buffer > head, free the blocks, then journal the parent. If the indirect block list > is corrupted and points to the parent the journal head will be detached > when the block is cleared, causing an OOPS. > > Check for that explicitly and handle it gracefully. > > This patch fixes the third case (image hdb.20000057.nullderef.gz) > reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10882. Thanks. Quite a few minorish ext3 fixes are coming in lately. Is anyone checking whether they are needed in ext4 and if so, porting them over? -mm's current queue is: ext3-fix-synchronization-of-quota-files-in-journal=data-mode.patch ext3-fix-typos-in-messages-and-comments-journalled-journaled.patch ext3-correct-mount-option-parsing-to-detect-when-quota-options-can-be-changed.patch jbd-replace-potentially-false-assertion-with-if-block.patch jbd-eliminate-duplicated-code-in-revocation-table-init-destroy-functions.patch jbd-tidy-up-revoke-cache-initialisation-and-destruction.patch ext3-improve-some-code-in-rb-tree-part-of-dirc.patch jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction.patch jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction-checkpatch-fixes.patch jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction-checkpatch-fixes-fix.patch ext3-remove-double-definitions-of-xattr-macros.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-fix.patch ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup-fix.patch ext3-dont-read-inode-block-if-the-buffer-has-a-write-error.patch ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks.patch -- 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
