On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capitella@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 00:10 +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: >> Hmm.. Can you try to write something like ext3_get_journal() and tell >> us the errors you are enountering. > > Here's the function I wrote: > > /********************************************************/ > struct inode *secdel_get_journal(struct super_block *sb) > { > struct inode *journal; > > journal = ext3_iget(sb, 3); > if (IS_ERR(journal)) { > printk(KERN_ERR "ext3secdel - no journal found.\n"); > return NULL; > } > > if (!S_ISREG(journal->i_mode)) { > printk(KERN_ERR "ext3secdel - invalid journal inode.\n"); > iput(journal); > return NULL; > } > > return journal; > } > /********************************************************/ > > It doesn't crash, but stops on the first error, after the ext3_iget() > call and returns NULL. Can you also add print the value of journal after it is returned from ext3_iget() in debug statement. It will have the error code and will help to trace the problem. > >> And also could you post what is the >> output of "stat <3>" after you have initialized your reserved inode. > > Here's the output: May be you should also initialize i_nlinks = 1. Thanks - Manish > > Inode: 3 Type: regular Mode: 0600 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 0x0 > User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0 > File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 > Links: 0 Blockcount: 0 > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > ctime: 0x4622bea1 -- Mon Apr 16 08:09:05 2007 > atime: 0x462a2136 -- Sat Apr 21 22:35:34 2007 > mtime: 0x4622325e -- Sun Apr 15 22:10:38 2007 > BLOCKS: > > ps. never mind the dates, I put random values... > >> Instead of trying to reference any pointer and do any operation, could >> you just try to print success or the errno from the ext3_iget() >> >> Thanks - >> Manish >> > Thank you, > Donato > > -- Thanks - Manish -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ