linux-kernel - JFS readdir() issues in stable 3.2

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:33:48 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	shaggy@...nel.org
CC:	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, lists@...dbynature.de,
	ben@...adent.org.uk, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	hmage@...ge.net,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: JFS readdir() issues in stable 3.2

Hi!

Mainline commit 44512449c0ab368889dd13ae0031fba74ee7e1d2
(jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4) does not work as expected on 3.2.
Maybe on other stable kernels too.

UML stumbled over it:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94741

If you run the attached readdir.c on a JFS on stable 3.2.51+ readdir() will not
increment the directory offset nor return NULL, hence the caller will loop forever.
It looks like if the current directory offset is > 0 and you run seekdir(telldir())
the next readdir() call will not increment it.

Dave, has your fix some unnamed dependencies which need backporting too?

Thanks,
//richard

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