Re: [BUG] null-pointer deref (perhaps reiserfs3)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 16:29:13 EST


Sven Köhler <skoehler@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=1M count=40
> > mkreiserfs -f image
> > mount -o loop image /mnt/test
> > cp -r /etc/ /mnt/test
> >
> > The kernel will Oops, and cp will segfault.
>
> Well, this won't make sense to you, if don't tell you, that "cp -r /etc/
> /mnt/test" copies more, than the reiserfs can take. In other words:
> reiserfs crashes if there's no more free diskspace.
>

Could you please test 2.6.10-rc3?
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