Re: PATCH for Corrupted IO on all block devices

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:05:32PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>  > What filesystem do you see the bug with?
> 
> His report did specifically mention "databases".  But my initial
> impression was the same as yours, that this is a bug in the user.

it is:

--- corruption.c.orig	Wed Jul 18 04:14:15 2001
+++ corruption.c	Wed Jul 18 04:31:29 2001
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
                 int i, buffer[RD_BUFF_SZ];
 		fflush(fp);
                 fseek(fp, o, SEEK_SET);
-                fread(buffer, sizeof(int), sizeof(buffer), fp);
+                fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), fp);
                 printf("Validating end of file writes\n");
                 for(i = (RD_BUFF_SZ - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
                     assert(buffer[i] == --j) ;

Andrea