Bug#682007: NULL pointer dereference in __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

In July, 2012, Brian Kroth wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> 2012-07-21 12:04:

>> Please test the attached patches, for example following the instructions
>> below:
[...]
> Anyways, I'll wait on the results of my previous test first to see if we
> have a reliable test case from it before moving forward.
>
> At this point the grep -r abc ... test is just hitting the cache over and
> over again, so it's not showing a whole lot.
>
> One other thing I'd tried before was something like this run a couple of
> times in a row (hmm, I suppose I could try them in parallel too):
>
> find /fsc_mounted_nfs -type f -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
>
> A couple of them paniced, but with inconsistent messages, so I had left them
> out for now.  Perhaps that's worth another shot ...

So, how did it go?  Did some test case prove reliable?  Any other
new observations?

Thanks,
Jonathan