Thanks Dave.
I normally would have seen the patch floating around in linux-kernel,
but I check the archives on kernelnotes.org and the archives have not
been working since last Sep. 8.
Cheers!
Eloy.-
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Known bug, Linus just hasn't made a pre-patch in a long
> time with the fix. Here is the fix:
>
> --- vanilla/linux/fs/buffer.c Wed Sep 6 08:29:45 2000
> +++ linux/fs/buffer.c Sun Sep 10 17:25:26 2000
> @@ -1758,13 +1758,13 @@
> pos += blocksize;
> }
>
> + err = 0;
> + if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> + get_block(inode, iblock, bh, 0);
> + if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
> - err = 0;
> - if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> - get_block(inode, iblock, bh, 0);
> - if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
> - goto unlock;
> - }
> err = -EIO;
> bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_io_sync;
> ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);
>
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