Re: 2.5.66-bk12 causes "rpm" errors

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> 
>   got 2.5.66-bk12 to boot on my inspiron 8100, and ran 
> "rpm -q iptables", got the following:
> 
> rpmdb: write: 0xbfffc2d0, 8192: Invalid argument
> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> package iptables is not installed
> 

Does it work OK with earlier 2.5 kernels?

The only change which comes to mind is the below one.  Could you do a
patch -R of this and retest?

Also, the log from `strace -f -o log rpm -q iptables' would be interesting.

Thanks.



 mm/filemap.c |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/filemap.c~file-limit-checking-cleanup mm/filemap.c
--- 25/mm/filemap.c~file-limit-checking-cleanup	2003-04-02 22:51:02.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/mm/filemap.c	2003-04-02 22:51:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -1509,9 +1509,8 @@ inline int generic_write_checks(struct i
 				send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
 				return -EFBIG;
 			}
-			if (*pos > 0xFFFFFFFFULL || *count > limit-(u32)*pos) {
-				/* send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0); */
-				*count = limit - (u32)*pos;
+			if (*count > limit - (typeof(limit))*pos) {
+				*count = limit - (typeof(limit))*pos;
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -1525,9 +1524,8 @@ inline int generic_write_checks(struct i
 			send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
 			return -EFBIG;
 		}
-		if (*count > MAX_NON_LFS - (u32)*pos) {
-			/* send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0); */
-			*count = MAX_NON_LFS - (u32)*pos;
+		if (*count > MAX_NON_LFS - (unsigned long)*pos) {
+			*count = MAX_NON_LFS - (unsigned long)*pos;
 		}
 	}
 

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