[PATCH] ext2_fill_super breakage
In 2.5.7 there is a thinko in the allocation and initialisation of the fs-private superblock for ext2. It's passing the wrong type to the sizeof operator (which of course gives the wrong size) when allocating and clearing the memory. Lesson for the day: this is one of the reasons why this idiom: some_type *p; p = malloc(sizeof(*p)); ... memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); is preferable to some_type *p; p = malloc(sizeof(some_type)); ... memset(p, 0, sizeof(some_type)); I checked the other filesystems. They're OK (but idiomatically impure). I've added a couple of defensive memsets where they were missing.
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