Re: [PATCH] 2.4: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:48:10PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> dann frazier wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Eric. Sounds like my comment about exercising these code paths
> > wasn't too clear - the comments with your patch do make the issue
> > clear, and this program demonstrates the void cast promotion issue
> > well. I'm just not sure of a good way to demonstrate that my backport
> > of this patch doesn't break anything for 2.4.
> 
> Ugh, no, that was my fault, I blindly copied & pasted something from a
> bug which I thought was a testcase, but isn't.  Sorry!
> 
> I originally saw this problem on an fsfuzzed filesystem; I don't think I
> still have that image around, though.

OK, that doesn't matter that much. At least the patch makes sense and
your example shows why original code is wrong, so I will merge it. If
anybody had a problem with it, the code would be easily bisectable
(there are so few patches in 2.4) and it's easy to revert it.

Thanks to you both, Eric and Dann !
Willy

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