Re: BUG: using rootfstype=ext4 causes oops

[Andrew Price <andy@andrewprice.me.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Freeing non-slab objects is bad.
> 
> Andrew, does this patch help?

Yes, that seems to fix it. I tested it with gfs2 and ext4 the usual way
and I couldn't reproduce the panic.

Thanks Bartlomiej.

> ---
>  drivers/ide/ide-io.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
> @@ -102,11 +102,14 @@ void ide_complete_cmd(ide_drive_t *drive
>  			drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_PARKED;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (rq && rq->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE)
> -		memcpy(rq->special, cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
> +	if (rq && rq->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE) {
> +		struct ide_cmd *orig_cmd = rq->special;
>  
> -	if (cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
> -		kfree(cmd);
> +		if (cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
> +			kfree(orig_cmd);
> +		else
> +			memcpy(orig_cmd, cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  /* obsolete, blk_rq_bytes() should be used instead */
> 

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Andrew Price