linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext3: htree entry integrity checking

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Message-ID: <455D0230.7040709@suse.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:28:32 -0500
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...freymahoney.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: htree entry integrity checking

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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2006  11:50 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>>  Currently, if a corrupted directory entry with rec_len=0 is encountered,
>>  we still trust that the data is valid. This can cause an infinite loop
>>  in htree_dirblock_to_tree() since the iteration loop will never make any
>>  progress.
> 
> Actually, I think Eric Sandeen was working on similar fixes already, and
> instead of doing a per-item check each time we look at the entry it does
> a full-block check the first time it is read (as ext2 does).
> 
>>  This fixes the problem described at:
>>  http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html
> 
> Would also be good to CC linux-ext4, where the ext3 maintainers live.

Ok, thanks. If that's already in -mm, I'll use that one.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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