linux-ext4 - EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK and the directory size.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:06:32 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK and the directory size.

Steps:
[root]# more /root/largedir 
i=65000
mkdir /mnt/tmp/test/
cd /mnt/tmp/test/
while [ $i -gt 0 ]
do 
        mkdir $i
        i=$(expr $i - 1)
done

# /root/largedir
# cd /mnt/tmp/test
# rm -rf *
# cd ..
# ls -al 
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1380352 Feb 12 07:15 test
# e2fsck -fv /dev/sda7
# ls -al 
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1380352 Feb 12 07:15 test

So e2fsck fix the link count. But the size is not updated. If i try to
run the script again, i get 

EXT4-fs error (device sda7): ext4_find_entry: reading directory #187681
offset 0
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda7: rw=32, want=17582522464, limit=19551042
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda7: rw=32, want=32620150800, limit=19551042
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda7: rw=32, want=32620150800, limit=19551042

Also after running fsstress fsck fails with zero size directory on
powerpc. I am finding directories with 

i_links_count == 1
i_blocks == 0

I missed to check whether the l_i_blocks_hi was having some value.

-aneesh
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html