On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > fault = check_bytes(start + length, POISON_INUSE, remainder); fault == NULL if the check was successful. Otherwise it contains the first address that does not match our expectations. > if (!fault) > return 1; > while (end > fault && end[-1] == POISON_INUSE) > end--; > > slab_err(s, page, "Padding overwritten. 0x%p-0x%p", fault, end - 1); > > So how come we're printing out 'fault' as zero and 'end' at 4 GB? Christoph? We should have returned from the function and not printed this message. If we somehow skipped the test for !fault then end could have wrapped around which gets us to 4GB. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
