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

[Duane Griffin]

On 08/03/2008, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

If jbd is a module, sure, but not if it is statically linked in. I
have the stacktraces to prove it :)

Cheers,
Duane.

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