Re: [BUG] 2.6.8-rc3 jffs2 unable to read filesystems

[Russell King]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:58:07PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:18 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > This can be seen by tracing through the code from jffs2_alloc_raw_inode()
> > and noticing that previous implementations do not initialise this field -
> > AFAICS kmem_cache_alloc() does not guarantee that memory returned by
> > this function will be initialised.
> 
> Doh.
> 
> > Therefore, recent 2.6.8-rc kernels must _NOT_ use this field if they
> > wish to remain compatible with existing jffs2 filesystems.
> 
> The format is compatible in theory -- we just need to work around the
> bug in the older code. Can you try this?

Ok, this boots fine here, thanks.

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Russell King
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