> Just to further confuse things, I don't get oopses at all, either with or
> without core dumps. That's a 2.1.26 kernel, libc 5.4.17, gcc 2.7.2.1, binutils
> 2.7.0.3.
That's the point. 2.1.26 catches an exception and continues without
oopsing, while 2.0.x relies on verify_area (which is inexistant in
ext2_file_write) to check the pointer.
Ionut
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