linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] dir_index: error out instead of BUG on corrupt hash dir limit

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Message-ID: <46BB9826.6040904@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:41:42 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dir_index: error out instead of BUG on corrupt hash dir
 limit

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> A corrupt ondisk hash dir limit will trip an assert in dx_probe,
> which calls BUG().  Instead, we can just issue the warning and
> fail dx_probe like the other 3 tests just before it.  Thanks
> to aviro for suggesting this...  

BTW this type of corruption is apparently quite easily generated by
using the binary windows-only ext driver at www.fs-driver.org....

-Eric
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