linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsprogs: Avoid infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block

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Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:27:54 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Niu <niu@...mcloud.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs: Avoid infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block_device()


On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> 
> My only concern would be that depth 5 isn't totally unreasonable in real life, and this causes it to silently stop searching, right?
> Would there be much harm in making the limit much higher, to be fairly sure that it has wandered off into the weeds?

Agreed, the kernel currently uses a limit of 8.  And we should use a #define for this in lib/ext2fs/ext2fsP.h, and use it for both finddev.c and lib/ext2fs/namei.c.

-- Ted

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