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SubjectRe: ext4 crash on 2.6.37: NULL ptr in ext4_discard_preallocations
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:05:27AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> I suppose it must be, as there's no other 0x3c offset in that function.
> Which means it's probably this line that's crashing:
>
> BUG_ON(pa->pa_obj_lock != &ei->i_prealloc_lock);
>
> ...which could only happen if "pa" was NULL there.
> I wonder how that happened ?

Which could only happen if ei->i_prealloc_list were not properly
initialized (i..e, it was still NULL). Which shouldn't ever
happen...., since all ext4_inodes are initialized in
ext4_alloc_inode().

Hmm, can you replicate the crash?

- Ted


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