linux-kernel - Re: Kernel oops (bug) in fs/buffers.c:create_empty

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Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:27:26 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops (bug) in fs/buffers.c:create_empty_buffers

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:31:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> isofs has a habit of returning impossible block sizes and the
> 
> 	while ((offset -= size) >= 0) {
> 
> consequently loops zero times and alloc_page_buffers() returns null.
> 
> Someone was having a look at it - maybe Jan?
> 
> I assume that the kernloops.org records link back to the original
> report somewhere but I can't find it?

http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=create_empty_buffers
has two:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696582
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13658


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