Re: [CHECKER] warning in 2.4.19/fs/ext2/dir.c:ext2_empty_dir wherea non-empty dir may be wrongly deleted

[Junfeng Yang]

Thanks a lot for the quick confirmation!

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:47:36PM -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> >
> > The bug reported in this messaage appears to cause a non-empty directory
> > to be wrongly deleted by sys_rmdir.
>
> [ENOMEM returned by ext2_get_page() gets ignored, leading to breakage, 2.4
> and 2.6 alike]
>
> That's serious and yes, there are other cases like that.  Fun...
> OK, hopefully I'll have patches by tonight.
>

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