On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capitella@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 15:46 +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capitella@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 15:10 +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capitella@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > 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. >> > journal after calling ext3_iget() has value -5. >> >> OK.... I think I understand your problem. My guess is that you chose >> the inode number to be 3 , but forgot to update the below function >> >> static inline int ext3_valid_inum(struct super_block *sb, unsigned >> long ino) >> { >> return ino == EXT3_ROOT_INO || >> ino == EXT3_JOURNAL_INO || >> ino == EXT3_RESIZE_INO || >> (ino >= EXT3_FIRST_INO(sb) && >> ino <= le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_inodes_count)); >> } > > Thanks, this helped. I just modified ext3_valid_inum() to accept inode > 3. Unfortunatelly, now I get error -116. And this time you are probably hitting this code in ext3_iget() because you forgot to initialize inode->i_nlink. if (inode->i_nlink == 0) { if (inode->i_mode == 0 || !(EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_mount_state & EXT3_ORPHAN_FS)) { /* this inode is deleted */ brelse (bh); ret = -ESTALE; goto bad_inode; } /* The only unlinked inodes we let through here have * valid i_mode and are being read by the orphan * recovery code: that's fine, we're about to complete * the process of deleting those. */ } > How do I understand what this > error corresponds to? Is it documented somewhere? This error corresponds to -ESTALE. See the file include/asm-generic/errno.h in kernel source tree. Hope that helps Thanks - Manish > > -- 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