linux-kernel - Re: zaurus pata_pcmcia corrupted filesystem

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100814094353.GB926@boggieman.bredbandsbolaget.se>
Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:43:53 +0200
From:	Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@...il.com>
To:	Cyril Hrubis <metan@....cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, pavel@....cz,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, lenz@...wisc.edu, arminlitzel@....de,
	thommycheck@...il.com, dbaryshkov@...il.com, omegamoon@...il.com,
	eric.y.miao@...il.com, utx@...guin.cz,
	zaurus-devel@...ts.linuxtogo.org,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Subject: Re: zaurus pata_pcmcia corrupted filesystem

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:44:11PM +0200, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> Marek Vasut ported deprecated zaurus pcmcia disk driver to the pata_pcmcia
> interface, sources are here:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/marex/pxa-linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/zaurus-haxing
> 
> Everythig seems to be fine at the first look but sometimes the filesystem gets
> unconsistent. Typical example is extracting tar archive with big number of
> files and directories (I used ltp-full archive from
> http://www.sf.net/projects/ltp/). After doing that, some files or directories
> are present in the filesystem, eg. you can see them in directory listing but
> open or fstat returns ENOENT.
> 
> Extracting to SD card seems to work without any problems.
> 
> Anybody has idea what went wrong?

What kind of number of files (in tar archive) are we talking about in round
figures? Does the files it affect differ in size (large fail, small doesnt)..?
Its hard to say without having more data (as always).

> 
> -- 
> Cyril Hrubis
> metan@....cz
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/