Re: [PATCH] quadratic behaviour in ext2

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 04:59:48 +0200 (MET DST)

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Rereading my letter I notice the first flaw:
since de is used as a pointer we have to guarantee
some alignment. So, the
if (de_len <= 0)
had better be
if (de_len <= 0 || (de_len % 4) != 0)

Andries

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