On Monday 23 June 2008 00:05:51 Michael Buesch wrote:
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> > Note: r9 and r3 are both NULL pointers. r3 is the value returned from alloc_page_buffers.
> > R9 is a copy of that, which gets accessed.
> 
> Hm, yeah. I looked at that code already, but I can't see how it could return
> a NULL pointer.

Well, actually, it can return a NULL pointer.

 928         head = NULL;
 929         offset = PAGE_SIZE;
 930         while ((offset -= size) >= 0) {
...
 949         }
 950         return head;

So if size, which is a passed in as parameter, is > PAGE_SIZE it will return NULL.

The size parameter is calculated by doing
blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
in an earlier function in the callchain.

So, well. I dunno what i_blkbits is. There's no docs in struct inode.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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