>> Some of my messages show ASCII data in the "want=" portion of
>> the "attempt to access beyond" message.
tytso:
> Well, that means the ext2 filesystem found ASCII data in either the
> inode table or an indirect metatdata block.
I don't think so.
Look at what is printed:
count = bh->b_size >> 9;
sector = bh->b_rsector;
if (...) {
printk("attempt to access beyond end of device\n");
printk("%s: rw=%d, want=%d, limit=%d\n",
kdevname(bh->b_rdev), rw,
(sector + count)>>1,
blk_size[major][MINOR(bh->b_rdev)]);
}
The want= part is the result of a computation.
It would be very surprising if that produced recognizable strings.
But of course, 4 random bytes may by coincidence be 4 ASCII bytes.
Andries
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