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SubjectRe: ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes
Hi,

[catching up from holidays]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:19:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It appeared in 2.4.2-ac25, and it looks like sct was the author:
>
> o Fix higmem block_prepare_write crash (Stephen Tweedie)
>
> Which is interesting - from the changelog it looks like he was
> fixing a different problem! I always though that code was there
> to prevent leakage of stale blocks. Stephen?

The code I fixed was the

- memset(bh->b_data, 0, bh->b_size);
+ memset(kaddr+block_start, 0, bh->b_size);

chunk to prevent the block_prepare_write out: error path from oopsing
on highmem pages -- that's unrelated to the problem at hand here.

Cheers,
Stephen
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