Re: [PATCH] zram: fix data corruption issue

[Nitin Gupta]

On 02/06/2011 12:11 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:03:12AM -0500, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > On 02/06/2011 12:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 08:34:20PM -0500, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > > > In zram_read() and zram_write() we were not incrementing the
> > > > index number and thus were reading/writing values from/to
> > > > incorrect sectors on zram disk, resulting in data corruption.
> > >
> > > Is this something that needs to go into .38 or can it wait until .39?
> >
> >
> > This really needs to get into .38 or users will see random data
> > corruption on zram devices.
>
> Ok, I'll queue it up for there.  What about .37 and/or .36?


The same problem exists on .37 and .36. I just checked that the same 
patch applies cleanly to both these version so may be included in their 
respective maintenance releases.

Thanks,
Nitin
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