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From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@innocent.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtdblock_ro and ext2 yields panic: block not locked
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:15:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20021023101434.021da080@mail.attbi.com> (raw)

At 08:49 AM 10/23/2002, you wrote:

>The panic comes via the INIT_REQUEST macro in mtdblock_request, but
>only after half a dozen requests or so.  The requests appear to be
>associated with the execve at the end of the kernel boot process.
>
>I also get this with yesterday's CVS.
>
>Ideas?  I don't think this is an MTD problem per se, but I'm stumped
>nonetheless.


mtdblock_ro is buggy. It uses nr_sectors instead current_nr_sectors while 
processing request.

I sent a patch to MTD maintainer several weeks ago - nothing happened.

Thanks,


  Eugene Surovegin <mailto:ebs@innocent.com>

             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-23 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-23 17:15 Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2002-10-27 19:53 ` mtdblock_ro and ext2 yields panic: block not locked Jörn Engel
2002-10-29 14:28   ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-23 15:49 William A. Gatliff
     [not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20021023101127.03ed2df0@pop.prodigy.net>
     [not found]   ` <20021023121843.A9783@saturn.billgatliff.com>
2002-10-23 17:22     ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-10-23 18:13       ` William A. Gatliff

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