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    [PATCH] Fix ext2 readdir f_pos re-validation logic · 2d7f2ea9
    Al Viro 提交于
    This fixes not one, but _two_, silly (but admittedly hard to hit) bugs
    in the ext2 filesystem "readdir()" function.  It also cleans up the code
    to avoid the unnecessary goto mess.
    
    The bugs were related to re-valiating the f_pos value after somebody had
    either done an "lseek()" on the directory to an invalid offset, or when
    the offset had become invalid due to a file being unlinked in the
    directory.  The code would not only set the f_version too eagerly, it
    would also not update f_pos appropriately for when the offset fixup took
    place.
    
    When that happened, we'd occasionally subsequently fail the readdir()
    even when we shouldn't (no real harm done, but an ugly printk, and
    obviously you would end up not necessarily seeing all entries).
    
    Thanks to Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> who noticed the problem
    and had a test-case for it, and also fixed up a thinko in the first
    version of this patch.
    Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Acked-by: NMasoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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