On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Donato Capitella<d.capite...@tin.it> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 00:10 +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote:
>> Hmm.. Can you try to write something like ext3_get_journal() and tell
>> us the errors you are enountering.
>
> Here's the function I wrote:
>
> /********************************************************/
> struct inode *secdel_get_journal(struct super_block *sb)
> {
> struct inode *journal;
>
> journal = ext3_iget(sb, 3);
> if (IS_ERR(journal)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "ext3secdel - no journal found.\n");
> return NULL;
> }
>
> if (!S_ISREG(journal->i_mode)) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "ext3secdel - invalid journal inode.\n");
> iput(journal);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> return journal;
> }
> /********************************************************/
>
> It doesn't crash, but stops on the first error, after the ext3_iget()
> call and returns NULL.
Can you also add print the value of journal after it is returned from
ext3_iget() in debug statement. It will have the error code and will
help to trace the problem.
>
>> And also could you post what is the
>> output of "stat <3>" after you have initialized your reserved inode.
>
> Here's the output:
May be you should also initialize i_nlinks = 1.
Thanks -
Manish
>
> Inode: 3 Type: regular Mode: 0600 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 0x0
> User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0
> File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
> Links: 0 Blockcount: 0
> Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
> ctime: 0x4622bea1 -- Mon Apr 16 08:09:05 2007
> atime: 0x462a2136 -- Sat Apr 21 22:35:34 2007
> mtime: 0x4622325e -- Sun Apr 15 22:10:38 2007
> BLOCKS:
>
> ps. never mind the dates, I put random values...
>
>> Instead of trying to reference any pointer and do any operation, could
>> you just try to print success or the errno from the ext3_iget()
>>
>> Thanks -
>> Manish
>>
> Thank you,
> Donato
>
>
--
Thanks -
Manish
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