On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:58:49PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:07:23PM +0200, Johannes Hirte wrote:
> > I think you're wrong here. I've run into a kernel null pointer dereference 
> > at 
> > this point with a NFS exported btrfs filesystem:
> 
> Looks like you've applied the patch to a far too old kernel.  It can't
> be NULL for quite a while already.
> 

You're the expert, but it looks like it could be null in 2.6.34 like he
says.  I'm just looking at vfs_fsync_range() in
"git show v2.6.34:fs/sync.c".

> If you're testing patches posted to the mailinglists always make sure
> you have a recent enough kernel.

This actually was merged into the btrfs and the kernel.org trees
already.

I'm not sure how the btrfs backports work...

regards,
dan carpenter
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