On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:19:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:32:48 -0400 > "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This fixes a bug where readdir() would return a directory entry twice > > if there was a hash collision in an hash tree indexed directory. > > That sounds like a serious problem, but given the amount of time it > took to turn up, I guess it's pretty rare. > > What are your thoughts regarding a 2.6.27 merge for this? 2.6.26.x? > 2.6.25.x? ... > It's not a regression, so per Linus's request that at this point we're too late for anything other than regression fixes, I had assumed that it should be pushed for 2.6.28, and then go into the various stable trees. It's true that it took quite a while for people to notice, probably because many programs won't notice if readdir() returns a directory entry twice. BTW, this hasn't hit -mm yet, and I've got a number of ext3 patches that don't appear to have hit -mm, including one that was authored by Linus. Should I create a git tree or a quilt series if that would make things easier for you? - Ted -- 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
