/drivers/mtd/mtdblock_ro.c is buggy

[Eugene Surovegin]

At 08:05 AM 3/19/2003, Callebaut, BenoНt wrote:
>After a lot of debugging I seen that there is a bug in the MTD read only
>block driver.
>It seems that in the mtdblock_request, something goes wrong withe the
>handling of the request structure.
>between two calls to end_request, the pointer bh->req_qnext of the last used
>buffer head is corrupted.
>I didn't find the cause but since this happens only with the
>mtdblock_request function I suppose there is something wrong in it.
>
>If I ever find what's wrong I will try to correct it, but don't hope too
>much I don't have a lot of time.

I submitted fix for mtdblock_ro.c to MTD CVS several months ago.

Please, get the latest mtdblock_ro.c from
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/, it should solve your problems.

Eugene


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