Re: [PATCH 2/3] jbd2: replace potentially false assertion with ifblock

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:23:36PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> It would probably be prudent to verify that these caches are initialized
> at journal_load() time and either re-try to create the cache, and/or report
> an error in that case and refuse to continue mounting.

That doesn't make any sense.  They're initialized in module_init and
destoryed in module_exit.  They can never be zero at journal_load time
unless you get random memory corruption overwriting exactly that pointer
with zero.

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