ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10

From: Steve Lord (lord@sgi.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 13:42:40 EST


It looks like ext3 does not work if you do not use an external
journal device - the journal_bdev field is not initialized and
ext3_put_super goes belly up:

At the very least it needs this:

===========================================================================
Index: linux/fs/ext3/super.c
===========================================================================

--- /usr/tmp/TmpDir.13226-0/linux/fs/ext3/super.c_1.6 Wed Jan 9 12:38:48 2002
+++ linux/fs/ext3/super.c Wed Jan 9 12:26:00 2002
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
         J_ASSERT(list_empty(&sbi->s_orphan));
 
         invalidate_bdev(sb->s_bdev, 0);
- if (sbi->journal_bdev != sb->s_bdev) {
+ if (sbi->journal_bdev && (sbi->journal_bdev != sb->s_bdev)) {
                 /*
                  * Invalidate the journal device's buffers. We don't want them
                  * floating about in memory - the physical journal device may

-- 

Steve

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