linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 02/31] libext2fs: Only link an inode into a directory once

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Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:11:58 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	jon ernst <jonernst07@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/31] libext2fs: Only link an inode into a directory once

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:37:50AM -0400, jon ernst wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Darrick J. Wong
> <darrick.wong@...cle.com> wrote:
> > The ext2fs_link helper function link_proc does not check the value of ls->done,
> > which means that if the function finds multiple empty spaces that will fit the
> > new directory entry, it will create a directory entry in each of the spaces.
> > Instead of doing that, check the done value and don't do anything more if we've
> > already added the directory entry.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/ext2fs/link.c |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/link.c b/lib/ext2fs/link.c
> > index f715067..e3ff450 100644
> > --- a/lib/ext2fs/link.c
> > +++ b/lib/ext2fs/link.c
> > @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ static int link_proc(struct ext2_dir_entry *dirent,
> >         int ret = 0;
> >         int csum_size = 0;
> >
> > +       if (ls->done)
> > +               return 0;
> maybe "return ret;" here to keep consistency.

Actually, DIRENT_ABORT is more appropriate here since the iteration stops.
I'll update the patch; thank you for pointing this out.

(This patch is years old now...)

--D
> > +
> >         rec_len = EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(ls->namelen);
> >
> >         ls->err = ext2fs_get_rec_len(ls->fs, dirent, &curr_rec_len);
> >
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