From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
torrey.hoffman@myrio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:38:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104163834.H1896@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D52B19A7284D32459CF20D579C4B0C0211CB0F@mail0.myrio.com> <200112201946.fBKJkNw01262@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011221004251.K1477@athlon.random>, <20011221004251.K1477@athlon.random>; <20011221024910.L1477@athlon.random> <3C22CF16.C78B1F19@zip.com.au>, <3C22CF16.C78B1F19@zip.com.au>; <20011229164056.H1356@athlon.random> <3C2EB208.B2BA7CBF@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C2EB208.B2BA7CBF@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:19:52PM -0800
Hi,
[catching up from holidays]
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:19:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It appeared in 2.4.2-ac25, and it looks like sct was the author:
>
> o Fix higmem block_prepare_write crash (Stephen Tweedie)
>
> Which is interesting - from the changelog it looks like he was
> fixing a different problem! I always though that code was there
> to prevent leakage of stale blocks. Stephen?
The code I fixed was the
- memset(bh->b_data, 0, bh->b_size);
+ memset(kaddr+block_start, 0, bh->b_size);
chunk to prevent the block_prepare_write out: error path from oopsing
on highmem pages -- that's unrelated to the problem at hand here.
Cheers,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-20 19:06 ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes Torrey Hoffman
2001-12-20 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 22:56 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-20 23:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-21 1:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <3C22CF16.C78B1F19@zip.com.au>
2001-12-29 15:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-30 6:19 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 6:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-30 6:38 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 7:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-30 10:15 ` ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd Alan Cox
2001-12-31 0:08 ` ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-30 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 7:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-30 7:59 ` ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrdkern " Andrew Morton
2001-12-30 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-31 0:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-31 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-31 1:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-31 0:05 ` ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern " Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-05 11:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-05 14:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-01-07 3:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-07 3:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 4:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-30 23:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-31 10:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-04 16:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2002-01-05 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-07 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-21 1:38 ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-21 1:51 ` Everyone else but TWO Andre Hedrick
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112210151020.15555-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-12-21 23:11 ` ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes Linus Torvalds
2001-12-21 23:39 ` Alexander Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-18 20:14 Torrey Hoffman
2001-12-20 12:19 ` Tachino Nobuhiro
2001-12-18 1:44 Torrey Hoffman
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