Re: 2.4.23aa1 ext3 oops

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:19 +0800, Jamie Clark wrote:
> The first oops ocurred after 4 or 5 days. My second run crashed in the 
> first night, this time in filemap.c: precheck_file_write().
> This oops seemed to be at or near the first dereference of inode, before 
> the f_flags test.
> 
>         /* FIXME: this is for backwards compatibility with 2.4 */
>         if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && (file->f_flags & O_APPEND))
>                 *ppos = pos = inode->i_size;

Odd. And what's 'inode' then? What compiler are you using?

> Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB all that I need?

Yes, I believe so.

-- 
dwmw2


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