On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:11:12PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: > From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > During mount, when we fail to open journal inode or root inode, the > __save_error_info will mod_timer. But actually s_err_report isn't > initialized yet and the kernel oops. The detailed information can > be found https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32082. > > The best way is to check whether the timer s_err_report is initialized > or not. But it seems that in include/linux/timer.h, we can't find a > good function to check the status of this timer, so this patch just > move the initializtion of s_err_report earlier so that we can avoid > the kernel panic. The corresponding del_timer is also added in the > error path. > > Reported-by: Sami Liedes <sliedes@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, I've added this patch to the ext4 patch queue. - Ted -- 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
