From: Kirill A. Shutemov on
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com> wrote:
> The btrfs relocate_file_extent_cluster() calls us with NULL filp:
>
>  [ 4005.426805] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000021
>  [ 4005.426818] IP: [<c109a130>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x18/0x3e
>
> CC: Yan Zheng <yanzheng(a)21cn.com>
> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill(a)shutemov.name>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu(a)intel.com>
> ---
>
> Andrew and Greg:
>
> This is an obvious correct bug fix for .34 and .33-stable,
> so I'm resending it directly to you without Kirill's confirmation.

Sorry.

Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill(a)shutemov.name>

> --- sound-2.6.orig/mm/readahead.c       2010-03-26 11:51:57.000000000 +0800
> +++ sound-2.6/mm/readahead.c    2010-03-26 11:52:11.000000000 +0800
> @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ void page_cache_sync_readahead(struct ad
>                return;
>
>        /* be dumb */
> -       if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_RANDOM) {
> +       if (filp && (filp->f_mode & FMODE_RANDOM)) {
>                force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, req_size);
>                return;
>        }
>
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