[PATCH] [JFFS2] load_xattr_datum need to return a positive number in case of unrecoverable error

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 22:54 +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> On 29/04/2012 17:44, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 23:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> >> Is this convincing enough?
> > Sure, thanks.
> >
> >> You might think that the attibute corruption I am showing here is very
> >> artificial but I can assure you that it does happen in the wild when you
> >> get a power cut on your equipment while the GC was moving an attribute
> >> node for example.
> > This issue is for sure worth fixing.
> So, will you accept this patch?

No, I meant that I agree that there is an issue, but I think that it
should be solved for all node types the same way. So I suggest to look
at what happens when data nodes are corrupted, how JFFS2 picks the older
node (if it does) and do it similarly for xattrs.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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