Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:48:10 -0600 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values |
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dann frazier wrote:
> Thanks Eric. Sounds like my comment about exercising these code paths > wasn't too clear - the comments with your patch do make the issue > clear, and this program demonstrates the void cast promotion issue > well. I'm just not sure of a good way to demonstrate that my backport > of this patch doesn't break anything for 2.4.
Ugh, no, that was my fault, I blindly copied & pasted something from a bug which I thought was a testcase, but isn't. Sorry!
I originally saw this problem on an fsfuzzed filesystem; I don't think I still have that image around, though.
-Eric
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