Re: [REPOST][RFC][PATCH] ext4: unify each meaning of the offset in ext4_check_dir_entry calling from some functions.

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On 2010-01-14, at 01:57, Toshiyuki Okajima wrote:
From: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

"offset" of the error message of ext4_check_dir_entry() might change the
meaning by the caller. There are 2 meanings:
- "File offset"
 called by:
ext4_readdir, htree_dirblock_to_tree, search_dirblock, ext4_dx_find_entry,
  empty_dir
- "Buffer offset"
 called by:
  add_dirent_to_buf, ext4_delete_entry

This makes sense to fix.

The best way to solve this problem is to change the meaning of
"Buffer offset" into "File offset" but it is not easy.
However, we can solve this problem easily if we unify the meanings into "Buffer offset". So, instead of "File Offset" meaning, we add the block number information to this message.

--- Examples ---
Error message which is changed by this patch:
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #12: rec_len is too small for name_len - block_nr=78:offset=0, inode=216,
rec_len=12, name_len=11

I personally would prefer to see "block=78, offset=0" instead of the above.

@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ int ext4_check_dir_entry(const char *fun

	if (error_msg != NULL)
		ext4_error(dir->i_sb, function,
+			"bad entry in directory #%lu: %s - block_nr=%llu:"
			"offset=%u, inode=%u, rec_len=%d, name_len=%d",
+			dir->i_ino, error_msg,
+			(u64)bh->b_blocknr, (u32)(offset%bh->b_size),


One problem here is that "(u64)" is not necessarily a "long long". On some 64-bit platforms it will be a "long" and this will generate a compiler warning. Better to use "(unsigned long long)", and you may as well use "(unsigned)" for the offset value.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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