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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix affs/super.c
Hi,

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Mounting a non-affs filesystem as affs crashes the kernel.
> The reason is the
> sbi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct affs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> memset(sbi, 0, sizeof(*AFFS_SB));
> where the second sizeof is 1, so that sbi is not zeroed at all.

Thanks, I found this bug last weekend too. :)
(But it hasn't left the m68k repository yet.)

> The patch below also does a little random polishing nearby.

Could you please keep this separate?

bye, Roman

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