Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:02:17 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: current BK boot failure, d_alloc() |
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On Mon, Mar 24 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > SBF: Simple Boot Flag extension found and enabled. > SBF: Setting boot flags 0x80 > Starting balanced_irq > Enabling SEP on CPU 1 > Enabling SEP on CPU 0 > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0xc016da64 in d_alloc (parent=0x0, name=0xdff8fea8) at > include/asm/string.h:196 > 196 __asm__ __volatile__( > (gdb) bt > #0 0xc016da64 in d_alloc (parent=0x0, name=0xdff8fea8) > at include/asm/string.h:196 > #1 0xc016dd16 in d_alloc_root (root_inode=0xc176ddc4) at > fs/dcache.c:787 > #2 0xc014f46b in shmem_fill_super (sb=0xc176ddc4, data=0x1, silent=0) > at mm/shmem.c:1738 > #3 0xc015cabf in get_sb_nodev (fs_type=0x1, flags=-1049174588, > data=0x1, > fill_super=0xc014f330 <shmem_fill_super>) at fs/super.c:586 > #4 0xc015cc16 in do_kern_mount (fstype=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>, > flags=1, name=0xc02c3547 "tmpfs", data=0x1) at fs/super.c:639 > #5 0xc015ccb7 in kern_mount (type=0x1) at fs/super.c:665 > #6 0xc0346620 in init_tmpfs () at mm/shmem.c:1887 > #7 0xc0338992 in do_initcalls () at init/main.c:486 > #8 0xc01050f5 in init (unused=0x0) at init/main.c:551 > (gdb) print *(struct qstr *) name > $1 = {name = 0x0, len = 1, hash = 0, name_str = 0xdff8feb4 "\230µÿß\200µÿß"} > > craps out in memcpy() due to name->name == NULL
smells like a compiler problem, with the following patch:
===== fs/dcache.c 1.43 vs edited ===== --- 1.43/fs/dcache.c Sat Mar 22 05:05:21 2003 +++ edited/fs/dcache.c Mon Mar 24 12:58:19 2003 @@ -784,7 +784,8 @@ struct dentry *res = NULL; if (root_inode) { - res = d_alloc(NULL, &(const struct qstr) { "/", 1, 0 }); + struct qstr name = { .name = "/", .len = 1, .hash = 0 }; + res = d_alloc(NULL, &name); if (res) { res->d_sb = root_inode->i_sb; res->d_parent = res; -- Jens Axboe
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