Re: [PATCH] [UFS] fs/ufs/super.c misreads the file system state

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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Leonid Kalev wrote:
> 
> ufs_get_fs_state() needs the file system type to read the state from the
> correct place in the superblock. It takes the type from UFS_SB(sb)->s_flags,
> but that value is stored after the first call to ufs_get_fs_state(). The patch
> below moves the assignment of s_flags up, before the first call to
> ufs_get_fs_state().
> 
> The patch is against linux-2.6.23-rc6-git7, but it applies (with offset) to
> 2.6.22 and to earlier versions as well. It has been tested on the Solaris
> flavor of UFS (ufstype=sunx86) - with this change, the file system can be used
> in read-write mode.

The same fix is already in 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 (don't know if it's lined up
for .23 though, I think it should be).


Satyam

PS: All my mails to Evgeniy Dushistov never reach him. The mail.ru server
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    is already whitelisted by the reciever (!)
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