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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: REVIEW: Fix xfs_check SEGV when encountering an unreadable block
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:13:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080826191344.GA30481@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.udjgr6qc3jf8g2@pc-bnaujok.melbourne.sgi.com>

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:51:32AM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> xfs_check (xfs_db "check" command) internally uses a stack for I/Os
> it reads/writes. In the check command, there are a few places where
> the I/O stack is pushed, a read is issued and the read fails but
> does not pop the stack location back.
>
> In nested uses of this stack, the caller then accesses this un-popped
> block which the data pointer is "NULL" causing a SEGV.
>
> I've checked all calls to push_cur()/set_cur() to make sure all
> failures call pop_cur().

Looks good to me.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-26 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30  1:51 REVIEW: Fix xfs_check SEGV when encountering an unreadable block Barry Naujok
2008-08-26  2:31 ` Barry Naujok
2008-08-26 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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