Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:52:19 -0800
From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>,
        dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 07:06:54PM +0530, Kamlakant Patel wrote:
> Creating a large file on a JFFS2 partition sometimes crashes with this call
> trace:
[...]
> 
> This crash is caused because the 'positions' is declared as an array of signed
> short. The value of position is in the range 0..65535, and will be converted
> to a negative number when the position is greater than 32767 and causes a
> corruption and crash. Changing the definition to 'unsigned short' fixes this
> issue
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@broadcom.com>

Pushed both patches to l2-mtd.git, and tagged them for -stable. Let me
know if you object.

Thanks,
Brian
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