From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:42:31 -0400 Subject: Possible Bug In-Reply-To: References: <56FD38C4.8030201@gmail.com> <56FD5358.5010101@gmail.com> Message-ID: <32498.1459449751@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:59:51 -0230, Roger H Newell said: > I reverted the previous change, and applied the if(f) test in > file_free. There are no error messages in dmseg and I can mount the > USB device. That's because Nick's patch is *still* wrong, as the *real* problem appears to be a memory corruption issue elsewhere. You don't see it every mount because it only explodes if a new slab needs to be allocated after the memory corruption has happened. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 848 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20160331/de3ff823/attachment.bin