linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix readdir error in case inline_data+^dir

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Message-ID: <20130419220018.GB13249@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:00:18 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, zab@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: fix readdir error in case
 inline_data+^dir_index.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:37:08PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
> 
> Zach reported a problem that if inline data is enabled, we don't
> tell the difference between the offset of '.' and '..'. And a
> getdents will fail if the user only want to get '.'. And what's
> worse, we may meet with duplicate dir entries as the offset
> for inline dir and non-inline one is quite different.
> 
> This patch just try to resolve this problem if dir_index
> is disabled. In this case, f_pos is the real offset with
> the dir block, so for inline dir, we just pretend as if
> we are a dir block and returns the offset like a norml
> dir block does.
> 
> Reported-by: Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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