Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261368AbVBZAkO (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261426AbVBZAkN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:40:13 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60103 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261368AbVBZAkI (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:40:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Mark Haverkamp , axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in 2.6 with bounced bio and dm In-Reply-To: <20050225161947.5fd6d343.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <1109351021.5014.10.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20050225161947.5fd6d343.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 17 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It seems very weird for dm to be shoving NULL page*'s into the middle of a > bio's bvec array, so your fix might end up being a workaround pending a > closer look at what's going on in there. Yes. I don't see how this patch can be anything but bandaid to hide the real bug. Where do these "non-page" bvec's originate? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/