ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:02 +0000 (22:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:21:46 +0000 (11:21 -0700)
commitbd39597cbd42a784105a04010100e27267481c67
treeafe3e40d871f4581146f5679ea546670fe93f4f2
parentd707d31c972b657dfc2efefd0b99cc4e14223dab
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>
fs/ext2/dir.c