samba - Jan 2004 - smbmount and filesystem images

Hi

Please CC me as I'm not on the list!

I have a share mounted to my linux box using smbmount, I can create and read
files okay. The share is exported from a Win2K server.

On the share I have a ext2 filesystem image which I am mounting with "mount
-o loop". This all worked like a charm under linux 2.4 but after upgrading
to 2.6.1 it has stopped working, the mount command just hangs. If I copy the
image-file to the local filesystem it mounts okay.

Has anybody run in to this before?

Thanks
P?r Degerman, Sweden

After researching more I discovered that the hang is actually a kernel oops:

# mount -o loop /home/smb/.image /mnt

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
CPU:     0
EIP:     0000 [<00000000>] Not tainted VLI
EEFLAGS: 00010282
EIP is at 0x0
....snip....
Call trace:
  [<f98c8667>] do_lo_receive
               lo_read_actor
               lo_receive
               do_lo_filebacked
               loop_thread
               loop_thread
               kernel_thread_helper

Could the bug be in the kernel loop module or?
But as I said if I copy the image to some local folder it works.

Regards
P Degerman, Sweden