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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:56:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Hans Reiser <hans@reiser.to>
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Subject: Re: panic in reiserfs: _get_block_create_0 gets bh_result->b_data
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
> Simply starting the validation phase of SPEC SFS with NFS mounted reiserfs
> filesystem panics as shown in the log below. A quick look at the source
> suggests that _get_block_create_0() (and therefore, more generally,
> reiserfs_get_block()) was passed a buffer head bh_result with ->b_data =
> NULL. So, we panic at line 256 of fs/reiserfs/inode.c when doing:
> 
> memset (bh_result->b_data, 0, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize)
> 

I meant line 356 of course - typo.

Tigran

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