New thread [BUG] JFFS2 usage of write_begin and write_end functions causes kernel panic

James jamessteward at optusnet.com.au
Sun May 11 18:46:56 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:31 +1000, James wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 09:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > You possibly need the patch in commit abe2f4143?
> 
> I'd love to, but (embarrassed) how do I find it?  I was searching in
> http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git , but didn't see how to search for
> a commit number.  Also the link the the GIT HOWTO timed out on several
> attempts to view it.

I think I found what you are talking about in here:
http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25

commit abe2f41430770270a1512bf78f489284bfbdbd04
Author: Alexey Korolev <akorolev at infradead.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 14 20:45:06 2008 +0100

    JFFS2 Fix of panics caused by wrong condition for hole frag creation in write_begin

Is that what you meant?

Regards,
James.




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