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

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Date:	Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:33:33 -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 12:11 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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