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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent panic during log recovery due to bogus operation header length
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:30:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214203041.GB23564@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475F88C3.709@sgi.com>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:07:47PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> A problem was reported where a system panicked in log recovery due
> to a corrupt log record.  The cause of the corruption is not known
> but this change will at least prevent a crash for this specific
> scenario.  Log recovery definitely needs some more work in this area.
>
> Lachlan

> --- fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c_1.332	2007-12-12 17:14:57.000000000 +1100
> +++ fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c	2007-12-12 17:15:42.000000000 +1100
> @@ -2912,7 +2912,12 @@ xlog_recover_process_data(
>  				xlog_recover_new_tid(&rhash[hash], tid,
>  					be64_to_cpu(rhead->h_lsn));
>  		} else {
> -			ASSERT(dp + be32_to_cpu(ohead->oh_len) <= lp);
> +			if (dp + be32_to_cpu(ohead->oh_len) > lp) {
> +				xlog_warn(
> +			"XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad length");
> +				ASSERT(0);
> +				return (XFS_ERROR(EIO));
> +			}

this still gives a panic for debug builds..  Maybe this should become
a WARN_ON(1) instead?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12  7:07 [PATCH] prevent panic during log recovery due to bogus operation header length Lachlan McIlroy
2007-12-14 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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