Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:57:35 +0800 | From | Eugene Teo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 02/16] ext: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (CVE-2008-3528) |
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Likewise, please change the description to:
"A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage problems, or due to invalid size & blocks from corruption) will generate a printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks. This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.
This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to read the directory."
Thanks, Eugene
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