Re: PATCH for Corrupted IO on all block devices

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 04:35:06 +0200


On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:05:32PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> > What filesystem do you see the bug with?
>
> His report did specifically mention "databases". But my initial
> impression was the same as yours, that this is a bug in the user.

it is:

--- corruption.c.orig Wed Jul 18 04:14:15 2001
+++ corruption.c Wed Jul 18 04:31:29 2001
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
int i, buffer[RD_BUFF_SZ];
fflush(fp);
fseek(fp, o, SEEK_SET);
- fread(buffer, sizeof(int), sizeof(buffer), fp);
+ fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), fp);
printf("Validating end of file writes\n");
for(i = (RD_BUFF_SZ - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
assert(buffer[i] == --j) ;

Andrea
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