-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Nick Piggin This was triggered, but not the fault of, the dirty page accounting patches. Suitable for -stable as well, after it goes upstream. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000004c EIP is at _spin_lock+0x12/0x66 Call Trace: [<401766e7>] __set_page_dirty_buffers+0x15/0xc0 [<401401e7>] set_page_dirty+0x2c/0x51 [<40140db2>] set_page_dirty_balance+0xb/0x3b [<40145d29>] __do_fault+0x1d8/0x279 [<40147059>] __handle_mm_fault+0x125/0x951 [<401133f1>] do_page_fault+0x440/0x59f [<4034d0c1>] error_code+0x39/0x40 [<08048a33>] 0x8048a33 ======================= Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/buffer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.18.orig/fs/buffer.c +++ linux-2.6.18/fs/buffer.c @@ -838,7 +838,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_dirty_inode); */ int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page) { - struct address_space * const mapping = page->mapping; + struct address_space * const mapping = page_mapping(page); + + if (unlikely(!mapping)) + return !TestSetPageDirty(page); spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock); if (page_has_buffers(page)) { -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/