please, try this patch
--- linux-2.5.74/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-getblk-race-fix Wed Jul 16 15:04:33 2003
+++ linux-2.5.74-alexey/fs/ext3/inode.c Mon Jul 21 14:36:37 2003
@@ -936,14 +936,12 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_getblk(handle_t
ext3_get_block instead, so it's not a
problem. */
lock_buffer(bh);
- if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
- BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call get_create_access");
- fatal = ext3_journal_get_create_access(handle, bh);
- if (!fatal) {
- memset(bh->b_data, 0,
- inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
- set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
- }
+ BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call get_create_access");
+ fatal = ext3_journal_get_create_access(handle, bh);
+ if (!fatal && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
+ memset(bh->b_data, 0,
+ inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
+ set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
}
unlock_buffer(bh);
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext3_journal_dirty_metadata");
_
>>>>> Felipe Alfaro Solana (FAS) writes:
FAS> Hi!
FAS> I've got the attached oops on 2.6.0-test1-mm2 + o8int.patch when
FAS> untarring the kernel sources for 2.6.0-test1 on an ext3 filesystem
FAS> using:
FAS> tar jxvf /path/to/linux-2.6.0-test1.tar.bz2
FAS> I've CCed Con Kolivas and Andrew Morton as I've seen a do_divide_error
FAS> which could be related with scheduler improvements.
FAS> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer deference at virtual address 00000014
FAS> printing eip:
FAS> c018e1b7
FAS> *pde = 00000000
FAS> Oops: 0000 [#1]
FAS> PREEMPT
FAS> CPU: 0
FAS> EIP: 0060:[<c018e1b7>] Not tainted VLI
FAS> EFLAGS: 00010202
FAS> EIP is at journal_dirty_metadata+0x49/0x243
FAS> eax: d75e6000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: d79ca480
FAS> esi: d724eb00 edi: d671c424 ebp: d79ca480 esp: d75e7e74
FAS> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
FAS> Process tar (pid: 2583, threadinfo=d75e6000 task=d6c39940)
FAS> Stack: 000d3f82 dfde6880 d6655a10 c014bda6 c014a6b5 dfdb5980 d79ca480 d67fc424
FAS> 00000001 d6655a10 c017f045 d67fc424 d79ca480 00001000 d75e7ebc 00000001
FAS> 00000001 00000000 00000030 00000001 00000001 00000cdd 000d3f82 dfde4420
FAS> Call Trace:
FAS> [<c014bda6>] __getblk+0x2b/0x51
FAS> [<c014a6b5>] wake_up_buffer+0xf/0x26
FAS> [<c017f045>] ext3_getblk+0xdb/0x284
FAS> [<c017f221>] ext3_bread+0x33/0xb6
FAS> [<c0184cc4>] ext3_mkdir+0xd1/0x2c6
FAS> [<c0184bf3>] ext3_mkdir+0x0/0x2c6
FAS> [<c0158350>] vfs_mkdir+0x6a/0xbc
FAS> [<c0158459>] sys_mkdir+0xb7/0xf6
FAS> [<c0108f11>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
FAS> Code: 8b 5d 24 0f 8f e3 01 00 00 f6 47 18 04 0f 85 e0 00 00 00 8b 07 8b 00 f6 00
FAS> 02 0f 85 d3 00 00 00 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 83 40 14 01 <8b> 43 14 3b 07 0f 84 66
FAS> 00 00 00 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 83 40 14
FAS> <6>note: tar[2583] exited with preempt_count 1
FAS> bad: scheduling while atomic!
FAS> Call Trace:
FAS> [<c011583f>] schedule+0x3f7/0x3fc
FAS> [<c013aeb8>] unmag_page_range+0x43/x069
FAS> [<c013b08f>] unmap_vmas+0x1b1/0x209
FAS> [<c013eba0>] exit_mmap+0x7c/0x190
FAS> [<c01171ec>] mmput+0x7b/0xe4
FAS> [<c011acdb>] do_exit+0x11d/0x3f2
FAS> [<c0113dec>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x456
FAS> [<c010977f>] do_divide_error+0x0/0xfa
FAS> [<c0113f18>] do_page_fault+0x12c/0x456
FAS> [<c0181dc3>] ext3_mark_inode_dirty+0x4f/0x51
FAS> [<c017e99b>] ext3_splice_branch+0x161/0x29c
FAS> [<c017dcda>] ext3_get_block_handle+0x2f4/0x355
FAS> [<c0113dec>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x456
FAS> [<c010910d>] journal_dirty_metadata+0x49/0x243
FAS> [<c014bda6>] __getblk+0x2b/0x51
FAS> [<c014bda6>] __getblk+0x2b/0x51
FAS> [<c014a6b5>] wake_up_buffer+0xf/0x26
FAS> [<c017f045>] ext3_getblk+0xdb/0x284
FAS> [<c017f221>] ext3_bread+0x33/0xb6
FAS> [<c0184cc4>] ext3_mkdir+0xd1/0x2c6
FAS> [<c0184bf3>] ext3_mkdir+0x0/0x2c6
FAS> [<c0158350>] vfs_mkdir+0x6a/0xbc
FAS> [<c0158459>] sys_mkdir+0xb7/0xf6
FAS> [<c0108f11>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
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