linux-ext4 - Re: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:17:22 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size

>   when converting ext4 directories to pagecache I just came over
> Takashi's patch preventing overflowing of rec_len. Looking over the
> patch - can't we do it more elegantly by using say 0xffff instead of 64K
> and perform conversion (using some helper) at the moment we read / store
> rec_len? That would be IMHO more transparent than current approach (at
> least it took me some time to understand what's going on with the
> current patch when I was looking at the code)...
  Attached is a patch that does this for ext4. If you like this
approach, I can cook up a similar patch for ext2 / ext3.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs

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