On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:26:35PM -0400, je...@suse.com wrote: > From: Jeff Mahoney <je...@suse.com> > > If we process the last item in the leaf and hit an I/O error while > reading the next leaf, we return -EIO without having adjusted the > position. Since we have emitted dirents, getdents() will return > the byte count to the user instead of the error. Subsequent callers > will emit the last successful dirent again, and return -EIO again, > with the same result. Callers loop forever. > > Instead, if we always increment ctx->pos after emitting or skipping > the dirent, we'll be sure that we won't hit the same one again. When > we go to process the next leaf, we won't have emitted any dirents > and the -EIO will be returned to the user properly. We also don't > need to track if we've emitted a dirent already or if we've changed > the position yet. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <je...@suse.com>
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