[Btrfs-devel] Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fixes for kobject changes in mainline

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:05:10PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:01:30AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Here's a patch against the unstable tree that gets the code to build
> > > against Linus's current tree (2.6.24-git12).  This is needed as the
> > > kobject/kset api has changed there.
> > >
> 
> Many thanks for these updates.
> 
> > > I tried to make the smallest changes needed, and it builds and loads
> > > successfully, but I don't have a btrfs volume anywhere (yet) to try to
> > > see if things still work properly :)
> >
> > Ok, I created a file for the fs, ran mkfs.btrfs on it, mounted it
> > loopback through the loop block driver, and then tried to mount it.
> >
> > Lovely oops in btrfs_search_slot it can be seen at:
> > 	http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=3304&msgid=
> >
> > Note, I'm running unstable for both the kernel module, and the userspace
> > tools...
> >
> > Was this something that I caused with the sysfs change?  Or should I not
> > be testing this with a loopback filesystem?
> 
> btrfs on top of loopback works fine here for btrfs-unstable.  Given the oops, 
> I'd guess someone is freeing the name field instead of strduping it.

Would that have been due to my sysfs change?  or something else?

thanks,

greg k-h