Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.6 is out .. reiserfs patch needed ?

[David Rees]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:52:17PM +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Mit, 04 Jul 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> 
> > You might want to use a fix for reiserfs_readdir's bug fix found recently.
> > This fix missed 2.4.6
> > 
> > --- dir.c~  Wed Jul  4 14:52:37 2001
> > +++ dir.c   Wed Jul  4 14:53:43 2001
> > @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
> >             // user space buffer is swapped out. At that time
> >             // entry can move to somewhere else
> >             memcpy (local_buf, d_name, d_reclen);
> > -           if (filldir (dirent, d_name, d_reclen, d_off, d_ino, 
> > +           if (filldir (dirent, local_buf, d_reclen, d_off, d_ino, 
> >                          DT_UNKNOWN) < 0) {
> >                 if (local_buf != small_buf) {
> >                     kfree(local_buf) ;
> 
> This chunk is still missing in 2.4.7-pre6. Is it possible to submit this to 
> Linus ?

What's the worst that can happen if you don't apply the patch?

-Dave