linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: fix data corruption issue

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Message-ID: <4D4E2B90.7010109@vflare.org>
Date:	Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:03:12 -0500
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Driver Project <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix data corruption issue

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.

Thanks,
Nitin

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