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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Driver Project <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix data corruption issue
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 21:11:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110206051111.GA4816@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4E2B90.7010109@vflare.org>

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:03:12AM -0500, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 12:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 08:34:20PM -0500, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> >>In zram_read() and zram_write() we were not incrementing the
> >>index number and thus were reading/writing values from/to
> >>incorrect sectors on zram disk, resulting in data corruption.
> >
> >Is this something that needs to go into .38 or can it wait until .39?
> >
> 
> 
> This really needs to get into .38 or users will see random data
> corruption on zram devices.

Ok, I'll queue it up for there.  What about .37 and/or .36?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-06  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-06  1:34 [PATCH] zram: fix data corruption issue Nitin Gupta
2011-02-06  5:00 ` Greg KH
2011-02-06  5:03   ` Nitin Gupta
2011-02-06  5:11     ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-06  5:33       ` Nitin Gupta

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