Re: BUG: disk corruption 2.3.99-pre4-pre3

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 15:19:15 EST


On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Copying an ISO from a 2.2.15-pre17 SMP box, over a network, to a
> 2.3.99-pre4-pre3 K6 box.
>
> smpbox> md5sum iso
> smpbox> cp iso /remote/tmp
> smpbox> md5sum iso # sum matches
>
> k6box> md5sum iso # sums differ
>
> smpbox> cp iso /remote/tmp
>
> k6box> md5sum iso # sum differs from first md5sum on K6 box!
>
> smpbox> ftp iso -> k6box
>
> k6box> md5sum iso # sum differs from all previous sums
> k6box> reboot
>
> (reboot yields the following oops. Note that httpd was NEVER EVER
> touched/woken up on this machine, except for its own scoreboard
> processing)

Hmmm.... looks like somebody moved the locking in do_exit(). WTF?
Another problem being that shmfs calls do_mmap() without proper locking,
but that's another story.

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