Re: Kernel oops (bug) in fs/buffers.c:create_empty_buffers

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 17:27:38 EST


On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:31:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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