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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Junfeng Yang <yjf@stanford.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mc@cs.Stanford.EDU, Madanlal S Musuvathi <madan@stanford.edu>,
	"David L. Dill" <dill@cs.Stanford.EDU>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] warning in 2.4.19/fs/ext2/dir.c:ext2_empty_dir where a non-empty dir may be wrongly deleted
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:02:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040224010248.GH31035@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0402231645240.16698-100000@epic8.Stanford.EDU>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-24  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24  0:47 Junfeng Yang
2004-02-24  1:02 ` viro [this message]
2004-02-24  1:29   ` Junfeng Yang

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