some dangling code in fs/ext2/namei.c, patch attached

afei@jhu.edu
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:52:21 -0500 (EST)

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fs/ext2/namei.c
279L:
de1 = (struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *)((char *) de +
EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(de->name_len));
de1->rec_len = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) -
EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(de->name_len));
de->rec_len =cpu_to_le16(EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(de->name_len));
de = de1;
The line computes de->rec_len is not necessary, cause de is reset later on.
Patch attached. So far it is not fixed in 2.3 yet.
# patch namei.c namei.patch
will correctly modify namei.c

Fei

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