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DateTue, 24 Feb 2004 01:02:48 +0000
From viro@parcelfa ...
SubjectRe: [CHECKER] warning in 2.4.19/fs/ext2/dir.c:ext2_empty_dir where a non-empty dir may be wrongly deleted
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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