From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753593Ab1GRQyH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:54:07 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:40669 "EHLO iabervon.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048Ab1GRQyF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:54:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:46:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Barkalow To: Seth Forshee cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with hfsplus on ipods in 2.6.38+ In-Reply-To: <20110718133651.GA19552@thinkpad-t410> Message-ID: References: <20110714135302.GA28501@thinkpad-t410> <20110715143900.GB19063@thinkpad-t410> <20110718133651.GA19552@thinkpad-t410> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank*