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

[Eric Sandeen]

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.

-Eric
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