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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:50:40 -0500
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>, Hans Reiser <hans@reiser.to>
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Subject: Re: panic in reiserfs: _get_block_create_0 gets bh_result->b_data = NULL
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On Friday, November 03, 2000 15:56:36 +0000 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> wrote:

> 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)
>> 
> 

Ok, I've tracked these down to a few places in our tail handling code.  Working on the fixes now. 

-chris
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