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Subject: Re: jffs2_gcd_mtd0 invoked oom-killer
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:45 +0300, Igor Marnat wrote:
> But it cannot pass the second corrupted place. It doesn't meet the
> NULL node, so the valid_ref is  always not NULL. It passes crc check of node header,
> so the loop continues till the system exhausted all the
> memory available (there are calls to kmalloc in the loop). When the
> chain length grows up to 110000 entries, oom killer begins to stop
> kernel threads and a bit later all the system reboots.

Can you please dump the mtd partition with the corrupt data with
nanddump:

# nanddump -b -f nand.dmp /dev/mtdX

compress it with bz2 and put it somewhere to download.


Thanks,

	tglx