-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Nov 16, 2006 11:50 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote: >> Currently, if a corrupted directory entry with rec_len=0 is encountered, >> we still trust that the data is valid. This can cause an infinite loop >> in htree_dirblock_to_tree() since the iteration loop will never make any >> progress. > > Actually, I think Eric Sandeen was working on similar fixes already, and > instead of doing a per-item check each time we look at the entry it does > a full-block check the first time it is read (as ext2 does). > >> This fixes the problem described at: >> http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html > > Would also be good to CC linux-ext4, where the ext3 maintainers live. Ok, thanks. If that's already in -mm, I'll use that one. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFXQIwLPWxlyuTD7IRApH7AJ9+/SFmd9bf8E741wvxw/6vdrUrdwCeJNEG eHZMo5RWUrLW5iDEqehjRlI= =lGRM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
