[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Initialize max_slots early

[Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>]

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran<sunil.mushran@oracle.com>


wow... this bug has been in mainline for 2 years. How come we
did not run into this problem earlier.

On 10/11/2010 10:57 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> Functions such as ocfs2_recovery_init() make use of osb->max_slots.
> Initialize osb->max_slots early so the functions may use the correct
> value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues<rgoldwyn@suse.de>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> index fa1be1b..3894c7e 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> @@ -2060,6 +2060,15 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
>   	snprintf(osb->dev_str, sizeof(osb->dev_str), "%u,%u",
>   		 MAJOR(osb->sb->s_dev), MINOR(osb->sb->s_dev));
>
> +	osb->max_slots = le16_to_cpu(di->id2.i_super.s_max_slots);
> +	if (osb->max_slots>  OCFS2_MAX_SLOTS || osb->max_slots == 0) {
> +		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Invalid number of node slots (%u)\n",
> +		     osb->max_slots);
> +		status = -EINVAL;
> +		goto bail;
> +	}
> +	mlog(0, "max_slots for this device: %u\n", osb->max_slots);
> +
>   	ocfs2_orphan_scan_init(osb);
>
>   	status = ocfs2_recovery_init(osb);
> @@ -2098,15 +2107,6 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
>   		goto bail;
>   	}
>
> -	osb->max_slots = le16_to_cpu(di->id2.i_super.s_max_slots);
> -	if (osb->max_slots>  OCFS2_MAX_SLOTS || osb->max_slots == 0) {
> -		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Invalid number of node slots (%u)\n",
> -		     osb->max_slots);
> -		status = -EINVAL;
> -		goto bail;
> -	}
> -	mlog(0, "max_slots for this device: %u\n", osb->max_slots);
> -
>   	osb->slot_recovery_generations =
>   		kcalloc(osb->max_slots, sizeof(*osb->slot_recovery_generations),
>   			GFP_KERNEL);
>
>