different crash (was Re: JFFS2 is crashing the kernel)

[Adam Wozniak]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> adam.wozniak at comdev.cc said:
> > Id: build.c,v 1.22 2002/01/09 16:30:57 dwmw2 Exp
> 
> Bugger. There was a bug in 1.21 which could cause the symptoms you saw -
> but I fixed it in 1.22.
> 
> Now I'm confused. It's possible that the shuffling around of code for
> portability, although it shouldn't have changed the behaviour in any
> significant way, has introduced a bug.
> 
> I suspect you have a node or inocache on the list which has been freed and
> shouldn't be there.
> 
> If this were reproducible, I'd want you to add debugging printks to
> jffs2_{alloc,free}_raw_node_ref similar to the ones in the inocache
> alloc/free functions. Also to jffs2_raw_ref_to_inum() to print raw and raw->
> next_in_ino each time round the loop you identified.
> 
> Then boot with debugging (level 1) enabled and log _all_ messages, even the
> KERN_DEBUG ones, from the time the filesystem is first mounted.
> 
> --
> dwmw2

Is it possible that I could have
had a kernel with build.c rev 1.21 which wrote bad data to flash,
then upgraded the kernel with a build.c rev 1.22
then got the crash?

I'm a little distant from the actual test lab, so I don't have the whole
history of the machine which crashed.  I also have machines in the field
which are running with a build.c rev 1.21 or earlier.  Are they likely
to be susceptable to this?

--Adam
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