Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: fix process_bmbt_reclist_int

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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 03:57:35PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> There is a set checks for corruption in block map btrees in
> process_bmbt_reclist_int that we identify but currently do not fix.  It
> appears that the author's intent in this function was to set error = 1,
> and then only clear it when all of the checks were completed
> successfully.  Unfortunately error can be cleared when it is used for
> the return value of blkmap_set_ext.  Some kinds of corruption are not
> being fixed, including duplicate extents, claiming free blocks, claiming
> metadata blocks, and multiply used blocks.
> 
> Fix this by shadowing error for blkmap_set_ext.

Shadowing variables is not a very nice way of solving the problem.
Someone will come along in a couple of years anf go "huh?" and
remove the shadowed declaration because it makes no sense and has
no comments explaining it.

Better is to use a different variable name for this scope - say
"error2" - or to reset error to a value of 1 after the call with a
comment explaining it....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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