linux-ext4 - Re: Bug#692104: linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in ext4fs

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Date:	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:52:35 +0100
From:	Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@...st.net>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, 692104@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#692104: linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: NULL pointer dereference
  in ext4fs

Hello,

On 02-11-12 15:33, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> I don't know what exactly triggered this, but the result was that my /home
>> was no longer accessible after this event.  My root filesystem was still
>> okay.
> I assume this means it was no longer accessible until the next boot.
>
Oh yes, definitely. Sorry for not being clear.

Also, this has just happened again. This time, after me not having 
touched the laptop for over ten hours. I'm starting to wonder whether my 
filesystem is corrupted. I'll make an LVM snapshot and then do a full fsck.

I'll attach the backtrace. Seems to be the same like this morning.


Wilmer v/d Gaast.

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