JFFS2 list_dirty corruption
Adam Wozniak
adam.wozniak at comdev.cc
Wed Feb 20 18:55:17 EST 2002
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 20. February 2002 20:41, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > While hacking on JFFS2 for NAND I found a possibility, where scan_medium
> > corrupts list_dirty.
> This patch resolves the problem:
>
> --- org/fs/jffs2/scan.c
> +++ work/fs/jffs2/scan.c
> @@ -128,9 +128,15 @@
> (!c->nextblock || c->nextblock->free_size <
> jeb->free_size)) {
> /* Better candidate for the next writes to
> go to */
> if (c->nextblock)
> + /* We must delete, because mark_node_obsolete
> + could have added this block to dirty_list already */
> + list_del(&c->nextblock->list);
> list_add(&c->nextblock->list,
> &c->dirty_list);
> c->nextblock = jeb;
> } else {
> + /* We must delete, because mark_node_obsolete
> + could have added this block to dirty_list already */
> + list_del(&jeb->list);
> list_add(&jeb->list, &c->dirty_list);
> }
> } else {
>
> I put it into CVS too
Ummm. Applying that patch gives me a seg fault on boot.
--Adam
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