linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] ext4 trace events cause NULL pointer dereferences

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:47:33 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] ext4 trace events cause NULL pointer dereferences

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:49:57AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > I think ext4 is simply using an incorrectly typed tracepoint here.
> > If you want it to be useful in any way it needs a sb paramter and
> > an optional inode paramter, not the allocation context.
> 
> I agree; this is the patch that I had whipped up to fix the problem.
> (See below)

I'm not familiar ext4 so much. but you patch seems very nice!
thank you :)

> 
> > Also the whole ext4_mb_release_group_pa function seems to be a bit
> > misdesigned.  The code using ac is a totally separate block at the
> > end of the function and does work that's unrelated to the rest
> > of the function.  Just making it a separate helper can calling it
> > only from those places that have the allocation context would make
> > the code more clear.
> 
> I need to look more closely at this.  If I had time there would be a
> lot of things that I'd be refactoring and cleaning up in mballoc.c....


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