Re: [PATCH] reiser BUG in 2.6.13-rc1

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Jens Axboe wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Reiser is derefencing an uninitialized pointer, causing an oops on boot.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
>
>diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
>--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
>+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
>@@ -1053,10 +1053,9 @@ static void handle_barrier_mode(struct s
> 
> static void handle_attrs( struct super_block *s )
> {
>-	struct reiserfs_super_block * rs;
>+	struct reiserfs_super_block * rs = SB_DISK_SUPER_BLOCK (s);
> 
> 	if( reiserfs_attrs( s ) ) {
>-		rs = SB_DISK_SUPER_BLOCK (s);
> 		if( old_format_only(s) ) {
> 			reiserfs_warning(s, "reiserfs: cannot support attributes on 3.5.x disk format" );
> 			REISERFS_SB(s) -> s_mount_opt &= ~ ( 1 << REISERFS_ATTRS );
>
>  
>
Thanks Jens.

Edward, how is the fedora boot bug finding going? Is this it by any chance?

Hans
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