Hi Filipe and Qu, On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:02:01AM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:51 AM Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit 9b378f6ad48cfa195ed868db9123c09ee7ec5ea2 ] > > > > The readdir implementation currently processes always up to the last index > > it finds. This however can result in an infinite loop if the directory has [..] > Thanks for the backport, and running the corresponding test case from > fstests to verify it's working. > > However when backporting a commit, one should also check if there are > fixes for that commit, as they > often introduce regressions or have some other bug - +1. Good to see this best practice applied here. > and that's the > case here. We also need to backport > the following 3 commits: > > https:// git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=357950361cbc6d54fb68ed878265c647384684ae > https:// git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e60aa5da14d01fed8411202dbe4adf6c44bd2a57 > https:// git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8e7f82deb0c0386a03b62e30082574347f8b57d5 Good catch. I get the same list thanks to the reference of the culprit: $ git log --oneline --grep 9b378f6ad linux/master 8e7f82deb0c038 btrfs: fix race between reading a directory and adding entries to it e60aa5da14d01f btrfs: refresh dir last index during a rewinddir(3) call 357950361cbc6d btrfs: set last dir index to the current last index when opening dir > One regression, the one regarding rewinddir(3), even has a test case > in fstests too (generic/471) and would have been caught > when running the "dir" group tests in fstests: > > https:// git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=68b958f5dc4ab13cfd86f7fb82621f9f022b7626 > > I'll work on making backports of those 3 other patches on top of your > backport, and then send all of them in a series, > including your patch, to make it easier to follow and apply all at once. Thanks for your support. Looking forward. BR, Eugeniu
