Hi Markus, I'm pretty sure the following should fix your problems; can you confirm? - Ted commit 1f94533d9cd75f6d2826018d54a971b9cc085992 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 30 22:57:41 2009 -0400 ext4: fix a BUG_ON crash by checking that page has buffers attached to it In ext4_num_dirty_pages() we were calling page_buffers() before checking to see if the page actually had pages attached to it; this would cause a BUG check crash in the inline function page_buffers(). Thanks to Markus Trippelsdorf for reporting this bug. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index ec367bc..6e65d0e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ static int check_block_validity(struct inode *inode, const char *msg, } /* - * Return the number of dirty pages in the given inode starting at - * page frame idx. + * Return the number of contiguous dirty pages in a given inode + * starting at page frame idx. */ static pgoff_t ext4_num_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t idx, unsigned int max_pages) @@ -1181,15 +1181,15 @@ static pgoff_t ext4_num_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t idx, unlock_page(page); break; } - head = page_buffers(page); - bh = head; - do { - if (!buffer_delay(bh) && - !buffer_unwritten(bh)) { - done = 1; - break; - } - } while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head); + if (page_has_buffers(page)) { + bh = head = page_buffers(page); + do { + if (!buffer_delay(bh) && + !buffer_unwritten(bh)) + done = 1; + bh = bh->b_this_page; + } while (!done && (bh != head)); + } unlock_page(page); if (done) break; -- 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