Bug#582088: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: null pointer dereference in __mark_inode_dirty+0x15/0x10b

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Thiemo,

Thiemo Nagel wrote:

> I came across this BUG yesterday on my Asus Eee PC 1000HG.  I had probably
> done 10-15 suspend/resume cycles that day.  I think I had mounted curlftpfs
> over a somewhat flaky 3G connection earlier that day, but I didn't access it
> at the time of the BUG (though I cannot speak for cron jobs, etc.).  Apart
> from that, I was only ext3 and the usual system stuff (tmpfs, proc, sysfs,
> devpts, binfmt_misc).
[...]
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
> IP: [<c10c90f1>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x15/0x10b

In other words, __mark_inode_dirty was called with (sb->s_op == NULL).
Weird.

Did this ever happen again?

Sorry for the long silence,
Jonathan