UBIFS assert failed in ubifs_dirty_inode
Herbert Xu
herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Jan 29 03:48:50 EST 2010
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:48:48PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> random: drop weird m_time/a_time manipulation
>
> No other driver does anything remotely like this that I know of except
> for the tty drivers, and I can't see any reason for random/urandom to do
> it. In fact, it's a (trivial, harmless) timing information leak. And
> obviously, it generates power- and flash-cycle wasting I/O, especially
> if combined with something like hwrngd. Also, it breaks ubifs's
> expectations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
Thanks Matt, I'll add this to crypto-2.6 and then stable.
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