Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:52:09 -0500 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic, fix. |
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On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 02:58:45 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Purpose of this patch is to catch events of corrupted ITEM_TYPE >> fields, and report these to user. Without this patch, accessing such >> items will resukt in dereferencing random memory areas in kernel, >> and then ooping (most probably). >> Please apply. > > Why corruption is happening in the first place ?
Oddly, the corruption most often caught by this patch was from the early redhat gcc 2.96.
-chris
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