Re: [PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic,

[Chris Mason]

On Wednesday, January 09, 2002 02:58:45 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>>     Purpose of this patch is to catch events of corrupted ITEM_TYPE
>>     fields, and report these to user. Without this patch, accessing such
>>     items will resukt in dereferencing random memory areas in kernel,
>>     and then ooping (most probably).
>>     Please apply.
> 
> Why corruption is happening in the first place ? 

Oddly, the corruption most often caught by this patch was from the early
redhat gcc 2.96.

-chris