Re: test8-pre4 data corruption?

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 17:15:43 EST


On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:25:39PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

    I hope Linus will release an "emergency" 2.4.0-test8-pre5 really
    soon, maybe even with /only/ Al Viro's two-line fix...

Ouch... I just got hit by this. At first I though it was flakey mbox
code and started saying bad works.

Here is the fix diff style for those who missed it:

--- linux-2.4.x/fs/ext2/inode.c.orig Wed Sep 6 10:14:07 2000
+++ linux-2.4.x/fs/ext2/inode.c Wed Sep 6 10:14:15 2000
@@ -713,8 +713,8 @@
 {
         while (p < q)
                 if (*p++)
- return 1;
- return 0;
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
 }
 
 /**

  --cw
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