[PATCH] certain data corruption may cause reiserfs to panic, fix.

From: Oleg Drokin (green@namesys.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 08:22:07 EST

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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.

Bye,
Oleg

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