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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Dragan Marinkovic <marinkovic.dragan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2_truncate_fragtree does not handle NULL return from jffs2_lookup_node_frag
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:27:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164212824.19298.21.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d33135570611212335p76f32b82k13c3a8a0671d4e24@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 23:35 -0800, Dragan Marinkovic wrote:
> Digging a bit deeper, I found that jffs2_truncate_fragtree is not
> handling the NULL as a return value from jffs2_lookup_node_frag . It looks
> like that NULL return is perfectly legal. The patch to fix this is attached.
> I'm not really sure if this is the right place to fix this problem but
> it should be OK from the correctness prospective (can't use NULL
> pointers).

The NULL is legal, but JFFS2 does handle it. Look at the latest git
version. Please, point which particular C operation in the
jffs2_truncate_fragtree() function causes the oops.

> More to it, I've noticed that if I remove the system power while file
> on JFFS2 partition is being updated (it takes a bit of time to hit the
> right moment), I'll completely lose the file (it just disappears). Any
> ideas?

What does "JFFS2 partition is being updated" mean?

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22  7:35 jffs2_truncate_fragtree does not handle NULL return from jffs2_lookup_node_frag Dragan Marinkovic
2006-11-22 16:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2006-11-22 16:49   ` Dragan Marinkovic
2006-11-22 16:55     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-11-22 18:50       ` Dragan Marinkovic
2006-11-22 17:19     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-11-22 17:22       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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