Re: [PATCH 1/1] XFS: xfs_iformat realtime device target pointercheck

From: Ramon de Carvalho Valle
Date: Wed Aug 05 2009 - 12:34:16 EST


On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:17 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:51:38PM -0300, Ramon de Carvalho Valle wrote:
> > The xfs_iformat function does not check if the realtime device target pointer
> > is valid when the XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME flag is set on the ondisk inode
> > structure.
>
> Same as Eric I don't think there's much of a point renumbering the error
> cases. Instead I'll do another patch with a couple of cleanups in this
> function replacing all the numbers with short alphabetic tags.

Great. Thanks.

>
> I don't really see the point of printing the flags either, if we have
> this bit flipped it's pretty clear that we had random corruption of this
> dinode.
>

Printing the flags is just for debugging purposes and it keeps the code
consistent with the other calls to xfs_fs_repair_cmn_err.

-Ramon

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