Hi,
I was trying to understand the purpose of the below check for
validating rec_len in the function ext2_add_link(). Before reaching
line 515 we call ext2_get_page() which checks for valid entries on the
page and thus validates the rec_len too. And then we call the
lock_page(), so is this check redundant or to avoid cases when
something could have changed on the page between the lines 497 and 501
?
ext2_add_link() {
........
497 page = ext2_get_page(dir, n, 0);
499 if (IS_ERR(page))
500 goto out;
501 lock_page(page);
.........
515 if (de->rec_len == 0) {
516 ext2_error(dir->i_sb, __func__,
517 "zero-length directory entry");
518 err = -EIO;
519 goto out_unlock;
520 }
..........
}
Thanks -
Manish
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