linux-kernel - Re: Problems with hfsplus on ipods in 2.6.38+

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@...ervon.org>
To:	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...era.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with hfsplus on ipods in 2.6.38+

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Seth Forshee wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:39:00AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > What I also see are GPFs in memory allocation code, which is what I
> > believe others have seen with my patch, and so far I haven't seen those
> > with the reversions. So I'm suspecting memory corruption, but I don't
> > yet see where the corruption is coming form. I found one problem, but I
> > don't suspect it's responsible for the GPFs.
> 
> I had some torture tests running over the weekend with the "one
> problem" mentioned above fixed, which was a couple of kfrees that were
> still using the old vhdr pointers. There were no oopses over a couple of
> days of testing. I've posted a new build on the bug in launchpad in
> hopes of getting some testing from those who were getting oopses quite
> readily. The updated patch follows.

I should be able to try it this evening.

	-Daniel
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