Hi!
Recently I tried to read old VFAT-formatted MO disk with 2.4.0-test7 kernel.
Long time ago in the days of 2.3.x such operation caused no problems.
Today 2.4.0-testX kernels OOPSes at fat_file_read(), trying to
dereference NULL pointer at (inode->i_sb)->cvf_format->cvf_file_read
Due to 2028 bytes/sector nature of 640MB MO disk,
cvf_format has been initialied to bigblock_cvf.
Here is where a nice NULL pointer coming from,
exactly from between default_fat_bmap() and
default_fat_file_write().
What is this all about?
Incomplete implementation or some kind of typo?
struct cvf_format bigblock_cvf = {
0, /* version - who cares? */
"big_blocks",
0, /* flags - who cares? */
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
bigblock_fat_bread,
bigblock_fat_bread,
bigblock_fat_brelse,
bigblock_fat_mark_buffer_dirty,
bigblock_fat_set_uptodate,
bigblock_fat_is_uptodate,
bigblock_fat_ll_rw_block,
default_fat_access,
NULL,
default_fat_bmap,
NULL,
^^^^^^
default_fat_file_write,
NULL,
NULL
};
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