Re: [reiserfs-dev] [PATCH] corrupted reiserfs may cause kernel to

Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:46:26 -0500


On Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:18:30 AM +0300 Oleg Drokin
<green@namesys.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Certain disk corruptions and i/o errors may cause lookup() to panic,
> which is wrong. This patch fixes the problem.
> Please apply.

Hmmm, none of the callers of reiserfs_find_entry have been changed to check
for IO_ERROR. We should at least change reiserfs_add_entry to check for
IO_ERROR, so it doesn't try to create a name after getting io error during
the lookup.

-chris

--- linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig Tue Dec 25 16:27:27 2001
+++ linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c Tue Dec 25 16:29:13 2001
@@ -309,9 +309,10 @@

while (1) {
retval = search_by_entry_key (dir->i_sb, &key_to_search, path_to_entry, de);
- if (retval == IO_ERROR)
- // FIXME: still has to be dealt with
- reiserfs_panic (dir->i_sb, "zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n");
+ if (retval == IO_ERROR) {
+ reiserfs_warning ("zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n");
+ return IO_ERROR;
+ }

/* compare names for all entries having given hash value */
retval = linear_search_in_dir_item (&key_to_search, de, name, namelen);

-
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