Re: [PATCH 12/13] xfs_repair: don't clear . or .. in process_dir2_data

[Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:29:27PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 3/19/15 11:47 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:33:14PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> process_dir2_data() has special . and .. processing; it is able
> >> to correct these inodes, so there is no reason to clear them.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  repair/dir2.c |   12 ++++++++++++
> >>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/repair/dir2.c b/repair/dir2.c
> >> index 9e6c67d..3acf71c 100644
> >> --- a/repair/dir2.c
> >> +++ b/repair/dir2.c
> >> @@ -1331,6 +1331,18 @@ _("entry at block %u offset %" PRIdPTR " in directory inode %" PRIu64
> >>  				dep->namelen = 1;
> >>  			clearino = 1;
> >>  		}
> >> +
> >> +		/*
> >> +		 * We have a special dot & dotdot fixer-upper below which can
> >> +		 * sort out the proper inode number, so don't clear it.
> >> +		 */
> >> +		if ((dep->namelen == 1 && dep->name[0] == '.') ||
> >> +		    (dep->namelen == 2 &&
> >> +		     dep->name[0] == '.' && dep->name[1] == '.')) {
> >> +			clearino = 0;
> >> +			clearreason = NULL;
> >> +		}
> >> +		    
> > 
> > Whitespace damage on the blank line above.
> > 
> > Seems Ok, but the question I have is what happens if the dot or dotdot
> > namelen was bogus? 
> 
> If namelen is 1 and name[0] is '.', or
> if namelen is 2 and name[0] is '.' and name[1] is '..'
> 
> then how can that the len be bogus?  The test is for the name being
> either precisely '.' or '..' and nothing else, right?
> 

Ah, yeah I see. So it would be cleared in that case.

Note that just above if namelen == 0 we set it to 1. Would we have the
opposite problem for hidden files with bogus namelen (i.e., not clear
entries that we should)?

Brian

> -Eric
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