On Nov 16, 2006 11:50 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Currently, if a corrupted directory entry with rec_len=0 is encountered, > we still trust that the data is valid. This can cause an infinite loop > in htree_dirblock_to_tree() since the iteration loop will never make any > progress.
Actually, I think Eric Sandeen was working on similar fixes already, and instead of doing a per-item check each time we look at the entry it does a full-block check the first time it is read (as ext2 does). > This fixes the problem described at: > http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html Would also be good to CC linux-ext4, where the ext3 maintainers live. Hmm, maybe we need to update MAINTAINERS with the new list address? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/