Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:16:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: kernel core Message-ID: <XFMail.010423151611.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200104232312.aa52217@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On 23-Apr-01 Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <200104232208.f3NM8d876569@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh > writes: >>: >>: Yes, but until such time as we do that we should warn people in UPDATING at >>: least. >>: >> >>OK, but you won't like the UPDATING entry. > > The bug actually looks fairly simple to fix. ffs_reload() isn't > checking if the new superblock fields are zero, so if an old fsck > zeros them out between a read-oly mount and a read-write remount, > then we get a division by zero or something later. Fair enough, I guess ffs_reload() should just sanity check the values. Any takers? > Ian -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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