Re: Cramfs: "unable to handle kernel paging request" when reading a file from a fuzzed FS image

2018-10-31 Thread Anatoly Trosinenko
Tested in fresh torvalds/master branch. Thank you! Best regards Anatoly пн, 29 окт. 2018 г. в 19:03, Nicolas Pitre : > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Anatoly Trosinenko wrote: > > > > How do I populate /vtmp? Mine is empty at this point. I imagine I > > > should put the cramfs image somewhere on the host,

Re: Cramfs: "unable to handle kernel paging request" when reading a file from a fuzzed FS image

2018-10-29 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Anatoly Trosinenko wrote: > > How do I populate /vtmp? Mine is empty at this point. I imagine I > > should put the cramfs image somewhere on the host, but I'm not that > > familiar withkvm. > > Oops, forgot to say, it is the /tmp/kvm-xfstests-$USER directory on > the host

Re: Cramfs: "unable to handle kernel paging request" when reading a file from a fuzzed FS image

2018-10-29 Thread Anatoly Trosinenko
> How do I populate /vtmp? Mine is empty at this point. I imagine I should put the cramfs image somewhere on the host, but I'm not that familiar withkvm. Oops, forgot to say, it is the /tmp/kvm-xfstests-$USER directory on the host (it will be created when you first launch kvm-xfstests and it is "l

Re: Cramfs: "unable to handle kernel paging request" when reading a file from a fuzzed FS image

2018-10-28 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, Anatoly Trosinenko wrote: > Hello, > > When reading a file from a fuzzed cramfs image, unhandled kernel > paging request occurs. Hmmm... It doesn't show up on my test system. > How to reproduce with kvm-xfstests: > 1) Checkout the v4.19 tag, copy x86_64-config-4.14 to .conf

Re: CRAMFS

2001-03-23 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
> I don't know why the comparision is made though, they are used for two > completely different things... ramfs is for temporary file storage, cramfs > is for immutable files stored on flash. Each by itself is quite optimal > for what it's designed for, isn't it ? Exactly. My mistake earlier to a

Re: CRAMFS

2001-03-23 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > > 1. RAMFS is just more stable in terms of less complexity, less bugs reported > > over the time, etc. > > 2. RAMFS is a fairly robust filesystem and all features required as far as I can > > tell. Ok, ramfs is really simple, but heck, cramfs is not

Re: cramfs b0rken on HIGHMEM machines

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
> just look at fs/cramfs/inode.c:cramfs_read_page() > It uses page_address instead of kmap(). > > I would have fixed it myself, but I don't know, how I should > kunmap() it, once we have memory pressure. Take a look at ramfs. kmap isnt really a 'pressure' thing. You want to kunmap the page as so

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-14 Thread Shane Nay
On Saturday 09 December 2000 06:39, Tim Riker wrote: > I'd like to see these patches as well. They may be useful on the iPAQ > (and similar hardware like my Yopy here... ;-) > > I wish some hardware vendor out there would build an x86 box that used > memory addressable flash from 0 up and RAM up h

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-13 Thread Shane Nay
Daniel, > Have you done a comparison of LZO against zlib (decompression > speed/size vs. compression ratio)? It uses less RAM/CPU to decompress > at the cost of wasting storage space, but it's hard to make a decision > without real numbers. I can't do a test on speed because I haven't had time

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-08 Thread Tim Riker
I'd like to see these patches as well. They may be useful on the iPAQ (and similar hardware like my Yopy here... ;-) I wish some hardware vendor out there would build an x86 box that used memory addressable flash from 0 up and RAM up higher. A simple Linux kernel boot loader could then replace th

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-08 Thread Shane Nay
On Friday 08 December 2000 05:11, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Here's a patch for the cramfs filesystem. Lots of improvements and a > new cramfsck program, see below for the full list of changes. > > It only modifies cramfs code (aside from adding cramfs to struct > super_block) and aims to be complet