Re: oops with 2.4.8-pre5

[Jens Axboe]

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On Tue, Aug 07 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07 2001, Alex Romosan wrote:
> > i got the following oops with kernel 2.4.8-pre5. i was just logged in
> > remotely, reading email with gnus and maybe i had just run dselect
> > (debian package installer):
> 
> This should fix it.

Eh scratch that braino, here's a right one...

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Jens Axboe

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--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.8-pre5/fs/buffer.c	Tue Aug  7 10:28:50 2001
+++ fs/buffer.c	Tue Aug  7 22:30:53 2001
@@ -2581,10 +2472,13 @@
 
 			spin_lock(&lru_list_lock);
 			bh = lru_list[BUF_DIRTY];
+			if (!bh)
+				goto quit;
 			if (!time_before(jiffies, bh->b_flushtime))
 				continue;
 			spin_unlock(&lru_list_lock);
 		}
+quit:
 		run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
 		return 0;
 	}

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