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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ext34: ensure do_split leaves enough free space in both blocks
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:21:40 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:

> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > The do_split() function for htree dir blocks is intended to split a
> > leaf block to make room for a new entry. It sorts the entries in the
> > original block by hash value, then moves the last half of the entries to
> > the new block - without accounting for how much space this actually moves.
> > (IOW, it moves half of the entry *count* not half of the entry *space*).
> > If by chance we have both large & small entries, and we move only the
> > smallest entries, and we have a large new entry to insert, we may not have
> > created enough space for it.
>
> (btw, the upshot of this is that in add_dirent_to_buf(),
> memcpy(de->name, name, namelen) will overshoot the buffer and actually
> corrupt memory.)

Nice!

So this looks like 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 material, but the timing is getting
pretty squeezy. Could people please give this change an extra-close
review, let me know?

Thanks.
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