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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:58:45 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic,
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
>     Purpose of this patch is to catch events of corrupted ITEM_TYPE fields, and report these to user.
>     Without this patch, accessing such items will resukt in dereferencing random memory areas in kernel,
>     and then ooping (most probably).
>     Please apply.

Why corruption is happening in the first place ? 

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