Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:53:17 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> >ramfs croaks with 'kernel BUG in filemap.c line 2559' anytime I make a > >file in ac2 and ac3. Works fine in 2.4.0 vanilla. Should be quite > >repeatable...
I'll take a look at the ramfs one. I may have broken something else when fixing everything else with ramfs (like unlink) crashing
> This sounds like a bug that I posted a fix for a long time ago. > cramfs calls bforget on the superblock area, destroying that block of > the ramdisk, even when the ramdisk does not contain a cramfs file system. > Normally, bforget is called on block that really can be trashed, > such as blocks release by truncate or unlink. If it worked for > you before, you were just getting lucky. Here is the patch. > > Linus, please consider applying this. Thank you.
This isnt the fix. If -ac also fails well it contains this cramfs fix. So there must be other problems
Alan
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