linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: fix NULL pointer dereference in, __mark_inode

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:17:57 +0100
From:	Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@...unet.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Andreas Bießmann <biessmann@...science.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: fix NULL pointer dereference in, __mark_inode_dirty

On 10.03.2011 11:39, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> I ran into the same problem and successfully applied your fix.
> 
> I was able to reproduce this panic and bisected it to the following commit:
> 
> commit aaead25b954879e1a708ff2f3602f494c18d20b5
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Date:   Mon Oct 4 14:25:33 2010 +0200
> 
>     writeback: always use sb->s_bdi for writeback purposes
> 
> The steps to reproduce it on my test system (T60p with Intel Core Duo) were.

Added Christoph to CC. I also open a bug report at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31112

	Torsten
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