From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261657AbULFV1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:27:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261659AbULFV1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:27:33 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1739 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbULFV13 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:27:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:27:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Sven =?ISO-8859-1?B?S/ZobGVy?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [BUG] null-pointer deref (perhaps reiserfs3) Message-Id: <20041206132712.084ac2b3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sven Köhler wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=1M count=40 > > mkreiserfs -f image > > mount -o loop image /mnt/test > > cp -r /etc/ /mnt/test > > > > The kernel will Oops, and cp will segfault. > > Well, this won't make sense to you, if don't tell you, that "cp -r /etc/ > /mnt/test" copies more, than the reiserfs can take. In other words: > reiserfs crashes if there's no more free diskspace. > Could you please test 2.6.10-rc3?