Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:18:30 +0300 | | From | Oleg Drokin <> | | | Subject | [PATCH] corrupted reiserfs may cause kernel to panic on lookup() sometimes. |
Hello!
Certain disk corruptions and i/o errors may cause lookup() to panic, which is wrong.
This patch fixes the problem.
Please apply.
Bye,
Oleg
--- linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig Tue Dec 25 16:27:27 2001
+++ linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c Tue Dec 25 16:29:13 2001
@@ -309,9 +309,10 @@
while (1) {
retval = search_by_entry_key (dir->i_sb, &key_to_search, path_to_entry, de);
- if (retval == IO_ERROR)
- // FIXME: still has to be dealt with
- reiserfs_panic (dir->i_sb, "zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n");
+ if (retval == IO_ERROR) {
+ reiserfs_warning ("zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n");
+ return IO_ERROR;
+ }
/* compare names for all entries having given hash value */
retval = linear_search_in_dir_item (&key_to_search, de, name, namelen); |  |