[Eric Sandeen - Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:51:34PM -0500]
| Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >[Eric Sandeen - Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:17:53PM -0500]
| >| Andrew Morton wrote:
| >|
| >| >Recursive lock_kernel() is OK.
| >|
| >| Oh, it is? Clearly I am not well versed in the BKL... that's probably a
| >| good thing.... :)
| >|
| >| Ok, let me look into it further. I changed lock_kernel to
| >| udf_lock_kernel to complain & backtrace if we re-lock, and it always
| >| immediately hung after that; I assumed that was it. I'll investigate
| >| further.
| >|
| >| -Eric
| >|
| >
| >Btw, Andrew is there any way to force kernel to use special UDF module
| >instead of compiled-in one? (Sorry for stupid question ;)
|
| Not if it's already built in (at least not with more hackery than it's
| worth...) - just rebuild your kernel w/ udf as a module.
|
| BTW my testcase before was bogus, that's not what's causing the lockup.
| I'll keep investigating now that I know what *not* to look for. ;-)
|
| -Eric
|
Eric, could you try this
Cyrill
diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c
index 51fe307..833c1b6 100644
--- a/fs/udf/namei.c
+++ b/fs/udf/namei.c
@@ -983,6 +983,8 @@ static int udf_symlink(struct inode * dir, struct dentry * dentry, const char *
block = udf_get_pblock(inode->i_sb, block,
UDF_I_LOCATION(inode).partitionReferenceNum, 0);
epos.bh = udf_tread(inode->i_sb, block);
+ if (!epos.bh)
+ BUG();
lock_buffer(epos.bh);
memset(epos.bh->b_data, 0x00, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
set_buffer_uptodate(epos.bh);
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