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...are synced up. - Fix a race which can cause a null-pointer deref in ext3_writepage(). This bug has been there for a long time, but only manifested in 2.3.13-pre for some reason. I've tested this pretty hard, every which way. It looks OK. There was a report against ext3-for-2.4.10 that mark_buffer_clean() was being called against an already-clean buffer. This has not been reproducable (in later kernels, at least). If anyone sees the message "jbd_preclean_buffer_check: clean of clean buffer" come out, please shout. This can only happen if ext3 debugging support is enabled in config.

I have ext3 0.0.6b + 2.2.19 and cannot get ext3 to compile as a module. If I try to modularize it, or turn in off completely, the kernel build fails. Is there an easy fix for this, or is there something that I am missing? Thanks. Peter

When trying to build ext3 as a module, I get the follwing errors during the kernel link: /usr/bin/kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/brian/src/kernel-2.2.19-pre6mvd/linux-2.2.19pre6-kdb-ext3/include -c -o dummy_sym.o dummy_sym.c ld -m elf_i386 -T /home/brian/src/kernel-2.2.19-pre6mvd/linux-2.2.19pre6-kdb-ext3/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_t ask.o -Map map