linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: avoid eh_entries overflow before insert extent

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:46:26 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: avoid eh_entries overflow before insert
 extent_idx

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:29:40PM +0800, Robin Dong wrote:
> If eh_entries is equal to (or greater than) eh_max, the operation of
> inserting new extent_idx will make number of entries overflow.
> So check eh_entries before inserting the new extent_idx.
> 
> Although there is no bug case according the code (function ext4_ext_insert_index 
> is called by ext4_ext_split and ext4_ext_split is called only if the index
> block has free space), the right logic should be "lookup the capacity before
> insertion".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>

Thanks, added to the ext4 tree.

						- Ted
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