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| author | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> | 2008-10-15 22:04:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 11:21:46 -0700 |
| commit | bd39597cbd42a784105a04010100e27267481c67 (patch) | |
| tree | afe3e40d871f4581146f5679ea546670fe93f4f2 /security | |
| parent | d707d31c972b657dfc2efefd0b99cc4e14223dab (diff) | |
ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption
A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage
problems, or due to invalid size & blocks from corruption) will generate a
printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks.
This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may
be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.
This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to
read the directory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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