linux-kernel - Re: Oops when using growisofs

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Message-Id: <200806222331.29691.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:31:29 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: Oops when using growisofs

On Sunday 22 June 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Evidently, alloc_page_buffers got an out of memory condition, which was not caught
> by create_empty_buffers. No idea how it should be handled, but the fact that it's
> not looks like a bug to me ;-).

Oh, btw: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=create_empty_buffers&btnG=Function+Search
finds 15 more instances of the same bug (and one other bug), across lots of
kernel versions and architectures. The bug has been there since we started
using git.

	Arnd <><
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