Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.36.1 hangs.

From: Glen Nakamura
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 02:47:15 EST


Aloha,

The "ext2_readdir() filp->f_pos fix" patch looks weird...
Perhaps the "filp->f_pos += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);" line should be
outside of the if statement like the indentation implies?
As it is, filp->f_pos gets corrupted if de->inode is ever zero...
This could possibly explain why I had a few strange directory
entries until I checked the filesystem with:
e2fsck -D -F -f /dev/{ext2 partition}

- glen

Here is an updated (untested) patch:

--- linux-2.4.36.orig/fs/ext2/dir.c
+++ linux-2.4.36/fs/ext2/dir.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void *
loff_t pos = filp->f_pos;
struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
- unsigned offset = pos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
+ unsigned int offset = pos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
unsigned long n = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
unsigned long npages = dir_pages(inode);
unsigned chunk_mask = ~(ext2_chunk_size(inode)-1);
@@ -258,8 +258,13 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void *
ext2_dirent *de;
struct page *page = ext2_get_page(inode, n);

- if (IS_ERR(page))
+ if (IS_ERR(page)) {
+ ext2_error(sb, __FUNCTION__,
+ "bad page in #%lu",
+ inode->i_ino);
+ filp->f_pos += PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
continue;
+ }
kaddr = page_address(page);
if (need_revalidate) {
offset = ext2_validate_entry(kaddr, offset, chunk_mask);
@@ -267,7 +272,7 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void *
}
de = (ext2_dirent *)(kaddr+offset);
limit = kaddr + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(1);
- for ( ;(char*)de <= limit; de = ext2_next_entry(de))
+ for ( ;(char*)de <= limit; de = ext2_next_entry(de)) {
if (de->inode) {
int over;
unsigned char d_type = DT_UNKNOWN;
@@ -284,11 +289,12 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void *
goto done;
}
}
+ filp->f_pos += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
+ }
ext2_put_page(page);
}

done:
- filp->f_pos = (n << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) | offset;
filp->f_version = inode->i_version;
UPDATE_ATIME(inode);
return 0;
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