From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic, fix.
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:52:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <344590000.1010609528@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201091458360.21044-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201091458360.21044-100000@freak.distro.conectiva >
On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 02:58:45 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Purpose of this patch is to catch events of corrupted ITEM_TYPE
>> fields, and report these to user. Without this patch, accessing such
>> items will resukt in dereferencing random memory areas in kernel,
>> and then ooping (most probably).
>> Please apply.
>
> Why corruption is happening in the first place ?
Oddly, the corruption most often caught by this patch was from the early
redhat gcc 2.96.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 13:22 [PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic, fix Oleg Drokin
2002-01-09 16:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201091458360.21044-100000@freak.distro.conectiva >
2002-01-09 20:52 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-01-11 9:45 ` [reiserfs-dev] " Oleg Drokin
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