linux-ext4 - [PATCH 1/3] ext4: report error if things go wrong when do checksum

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Date:	Sat,  5 Jan 2013 15:42:59 +0800
From:	Guo Chao <yan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: report error if things go wrong when do checksum

In ext4_dx_csum_verify(), if we detect corrupted data,
we do not compare checksum because checksum itself may
be wrong, but we should report error in this case.

Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index cac4482..843e29f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -370,14 +370,14 @@ static int ext4_dx_csum_verify(struct inode *inode,
 	c = get_dx_countlimit(inode, dirent, &count_offset);
 	if (!c) {
 		EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "dir seems corrupt?  Run e2fsck -D.");
-		return 1;
+		return 0;
 	}
 	limit = le16_to_cpu(c->limit);
 	count = le16_to_cpu(c->count);
 	if (count_offset + (limit * sizeof(struct dx_entry)) >
 	    EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(inode->i_sb) - sizeof(struct dx_tail)) {
 		warn_no_space_for_csum(inode);
-		return 1;
+		return 0;
 	}
 	t = (struct dx_tail *)(((struct dx_entry *)c) + limit);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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