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SubjectRe: [patch 02/16] ext: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (CVE-2008-3528)
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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