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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Mike Turner <admin@islandsoftware.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: bug found in the core MTD driver code in 2.6.34 r97
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:38:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303101488.2815.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <165001cbfac4$c10056b0$0400a8c0@hack>

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 17:55 +0100, Mike Turner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> On the second and subsequent boots into my Gumstix NAND-resident ubifs RFS 
> (Gumstix "minimal build" aimed at fast booting from NAND), it seems that 
> udevadm - executing from the script /etc/init.d/udev - encounters a driver 
> crash when drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c:gluebi_read() passes the value 
> 0xFFFFFFF0 as a "struct ubi_volume_desc *" argument to  ubi_read() and 
> thence ubi_leb_read().

OK, I see the issue now.

> Is this bug unique to my build, perhaps caused by an 
> incomplete/wrong/missing patch, or is it the case in other builds?

Not this is just a bug. Your version of the kernel is old and the
upstream has changed, but I see there are problems with the error path
in upstream as well.

> 
> I fixed it by making blktrans_open() behave exactly the same w.r.t. the 
> return from get_mtd_device() as do all the other callers to that function. 
> I presume that would be the correct approach?

Yeah, you may just fix up your kernel. You might as well try the
upstream kernel, fix it and submit a patch.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-18  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14 16:55 bug found in the core MTD driver code in 2.6.34 r97 Mike Turner
2011-04-18  4:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-18  4:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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