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

[Chris Mason]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:27 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Anything 2.6.10-rc1 or newer should fix it, I sent him the reiserfs
small filesystem patch earlier today.

-chris



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