From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~366
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd39597cbd42a784105a04010100e27267481c67;p=pandora-kernel.git

ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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