Hi, We've just seen a buffer.c oops in: >>EIP; c013ae4b <__block_prepare_write+2bb/300> <===== Trace; c013b732 Trace; c015dbba Trace; c012a67e Trace; c015dbba Trace; c01281c0 Trace; c01384a6 Trace; c010910b __block_prepare_write()'s "out:" error handler tries to do a memset(bh->b_data, 0, bh->b_size); even if the buffer's page has already been kmapped for highmem. Highmem pages will obviously have b_data being NULL. Patch below. I had a quick look through the rest of buffer.c and apart from the initialisation of bh->b_data in set_bh_page(), there are no other references left to b_data once we fix this. Cheers, Stephen