Re: panic in reiserfs: _get_block_create_0 gets bh_result->b_data = NULL

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 10:56:36 EST


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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