Re: BUG in fs/ext3/dir.c

[Holger Kiehl]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:56:26AM +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> > [Sorry if you get this twice. This was send to ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx and
> >  the authors of ext3, but got no responce.]
> 
> I'm on ext3-users, but I didn't get the e-mail.....  so this is the
> first time I've seen this.
> 
> > When using readdir() on a directory with many files or long file names
> > it can happen that it returns the same file name twice. Attached is
> > a program that demonstrates this. 
> 
> Thanks for the test case, I'm currently looking at the problem....
> 
I see that Andrew Morton took out the relevant patch and that
Kris Karas reported some filesytem corruption. In my case it did NOT
corrupt the filesystem. I just checked it after some millions of files
went through the system for some days.

Holger
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