linux-ext4 - Re: [Bug 10871] New: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem

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Message-ID: <484CA5D1.8050709@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:38:57 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 10871] New: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri,  6 Jun 2008 05:43:38 -0700 (PDT) bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
> 
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10871
>>
>>            Summary: Apparent infinite loop on reading broken filesystem
> 
> This gentleman has fuzzed his ext2 filesystem and it apparently broke.
> 
> ext3 broke worse, but no details on that yet.
> 
> I cheekily cc'ed Eric on the report as he likes this stuff so much :)

Love it... LOVE IT!  :)

But seriously, it's hard to argue with a reproducible testcase.  :)

-Eric
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