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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix regression in "cleanup xfs_dir2_block_getdents"
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:01:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312090128.GA11127@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200312085728.22187-1-tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:57:28AM +0200, Tommi Rantala wrote:
> Commit 263dde869bd09 ("xfs: cleanup xfs_dir2_block_getdents") introduced
> a getdents regression, when it converted the pointer arithmetics to
> offset calculations: offset is updated in the loop already for the next
> iteration, but the updated offset value is used incorrectly in two
> places, where we should have used the not-yet-updated value.
> 
> This caused for example "git clean -ffdx" failures to cleanup certain
> directory structures when running in a container.
> 
> Fix the regression by making sure we use proper offset in the loop body.
> Thanks to Christoph Hellwig for suggestion how to best fix the code.
> 
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Fixes: 263dde869bd09 ("xfs: cleanup xfs_dir2_block_getdents")
> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-12  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12  8:57 [PATCH] xfs: fix regression in "cleanup xfs_dir2_block_getdents" Tommi Rantala
2020-03-12  9:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-03-12 14:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-03-13  5:03 ` Dave Chinner

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