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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Massimiliano Galanti <massiblue@libero.it>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: checking write_cached_data return status inside _release and _flush?
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:02:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060410100252.GA17383@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4436A961.7050209@libero.it>

On Fri, 7 April 2006 20:03:13 +0200, Massimiliano Galanti wrote:
> 
> i experienced some corruption of data on flash memories i am using, and
> discovered that this is related to these functions in mtdblock.c:
> 
> 	static int mtdblock_release(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *mbd)
> 	static int mtdblock_flush(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev)
> 
> not checking the return value of the function:
> 
>         write_cached_data(mtdblk)
> 
> i fixed that by checking the return value inside a while cycle but is 
> there any particular reason the original code is written that way?

Sounds like a plain bug.  Can you send a patch?

Jörn

-- 
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach,
you can almost always do something better.
-- John Carmack

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-10 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07 18:03 checking write_cached_data return status inside _release and _flush? Massimiliano Galanti
2006-04-10 10:02 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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2006-04-10 12:24 ` Jörn Engel

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