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SubjectRe: BUG: using rootfstype=ext4 causes oops
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On Thursday 16 April 2009 19:05:56 Andrew Price wrote:
> 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.

Great, I'll queue the following patch for the next round of IDE fixes.

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix barriers support

Freeing non-slab objects is bad and results in an oops. Fix it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andrew Price <andy@andrewprice.me.uk>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---
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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