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

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:58:45 -0200 (BRST)


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 ?

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