Just a note that this oops still occurs in test10. The problem occurs
because get_devfs_entry_from_vfs_inode in devfs_follow_link (and/or
devfs_read_link), seems to return invalid or incorrect devfs entries whose
.u.symlink.linkname is null which causes the line:
if (*link == '/') {
in fs/namei.c: __vfs_follow_link to oops.
The oops is due to trying to follow an sg? link in /dev.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Piggin" <[email protected]>
To: "Linux-Kernel" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:16 PM
Subject: 2.4.0-test9 Oopses
> Did the following with 2.4.0-test9 + reiserfs 3.6.18 (all ext2 filesystem,
> however) and all ide block devices.
>
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> Vendor: RICOH Model: CD-R/RW MP7060A Rev: 1.50
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-ROM DRIVE-24X Rev: U40M
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x xa/form2 cdda tray
> scsi : 0 hosts left.
>
> (loaded ide-scsi modules as you can see)
[snip]
> Doing cdrecord -scanbus I
> got these two oopses
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000
> printing eip:
> c013a551
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[vfs_follow_link+33/368]
> EFLAGS: 00010217
> eax: 00000000 ebx: c3c5bf90 ecx: 00000341 edx: c02b6040
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c3c5befc
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process devfsd (pid: 12, stackpage=c3c5b000)
> Stack: c3c5bf90 00000000 c0a01e20 c3c5bf90 00000000 c01547cf c3c5bf90
> 00000000
> c3c5a000 c0138143 c0a01e20 c3c5bf90 c09c0b40 c3d69000 00000000
> c3c5bf90
> bfffecdc 00000001 bfffecdc c3c5bf94 00000009 c0a01e20 c3d69005
> 00000003
> Call Trace: [devfs_follow_link+31/48] [path_walk+1683/1952]
> [__user_walk+60/96] [sys_chown+22/80] [sys_chown16+48/64]
> [system_call+51/56]
> Code: 80 3f 2f 0f 85 c6 00 00 00 53 e8 90 d2 ff ff ba 00 e0 ff ff
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000
> printing eip:
> c013a551
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[vfs_follow_link+33/368]
> EFLAGS: 00010217
> eax: 00000000 ebx: c081df80 ecx: 00000341 edx: c02b6040
> esi: c0a01b20 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c081ded0
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process cdrecord (pid: 758, stackpage=c081d000)
> Stack: c081df80 c0a01b20 c0a01b20 c081df80 00000000 c01547cf c081df80
> 00000000
> c081c000 c0138143 c0a01b20 c081df80 c09c0b40 c117d000 00000000
> 00000002
> 00000003 00000001 08074094 c081df84 00000001 c0a01b20 c117d005
> 00000003
> Call Trace: [devfs_follow_link+31/48] [path_walk+1683/1952]
> [open_namei+128/1504] [filp_open+59/96] [sys_open+67/208]
> [system_call+51/56]
> Code: 80 3f 2f 0f 85 c6 00 00 00 53 e8 90 d2 ff ff ba 00 e0 ff ff
>
>
>