garbage collect

[Nick Ivanter]

Nick Ivanter wrote:

> SИbastien CТtИ wrote:
>
> > Nick Ivanter wrote:
> >
> > > I've compiled JFFS and MTD into the kernel and tried to play with it on
> > > the mtdram device. It seems to work, but when I tried to mount device
> > > without manually specifying a filesystem type, I got error: "Unable to
> > > handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address ...........
> > > Process mount........... Segmentation fault". When specifying -t jffs,
> > > everything seems to be ok.
> > > Does anyone have ideas about what may cause that?
> >
> > hmm.... when I try the same thing I get :
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >
> > I get the same output with -t auto.....  try using -t auto and see if it
> > segfaults.
> >
> > --
> > SИbastien CТtИ
>
> I've tried it. mount with -t auto segfaults in the same way.
>
> But I noticed interesting thing: when I then try to mount it for the first

                                          ^^^^ sorry shouldn't be "then" here

>
> time either with -t auto or not, I get the error immediately after entering
> the command. But when I try it for the second time (again doesn't matter
> specifying -t auto or not), I get debugging output from the mtdblock before
> the error message:
>
> bash# mount /dev/mtd0 /mnt -t auto
> mtdblock_open
> ok
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
>
> current->tss.cr3 = 01676000, %cr3 = 01676000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0002
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c014cd43>]
> EFLAGS: 00010092
> ..................
> .................
>
> Starting the third time and till reset, mounting /dev/mtd0 without
> specifying filesystem type or with -t auto doesn't cause segfault:
>
> bash# mount /dev/mtd0 /mnt
> mtdblock_open
> ok
> mtdblock_release
> ok
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> Nick.



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