Re: XFS Bug null pointer dereference in xfs_free_ag_extent

[Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>]

Nathan Scott schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>
> > kernel schrieb:
> >
> > > I have the same problem, but it seems not have a patch right now.
> >
> > No, I got zero feedback, but let's cc the correct
> > mailing list. I also filed bug 6877 at kernel.org
>
>
> Is this easily reproducible for you?  I've not seen it before, and
> the only possibly related recent changes I can think of are these:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e63a3690013a475746ad2cea998ebb534d825704
>
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d210a28cd851082cec9b282443f8cc0e6fc09830
>
> Could you try reverting each of those to see if either is the cause?

No, the XFS partition in question is gone due to the infamous
endian bug in 2.6.17. I only saw the error once. Hardware is
4 sata drives on a sil-something controller with software
raid5. No lvm. But the error reads like a rename race of some
kind?

Jan
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