Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Remove retry loop in ecryptfs_readdir()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 18:35:17 EST


On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:28:36 -0500
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> The retry block in ecryptfs_readdir() has been in the eCryptfs code
> base for a while, apparently for no good reason. This loop could
> potentially run without terminating. This patch removes the loop,
> instead erroring out if vfs_readdir() on the lower file fails.

I assumed this was for-2.6.28.
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