On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:42:53PM -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: > If the ext3 journal gets out of sync with what is written on disk, for > example because of an unexpected power cut, ext4fs_read_file can > return an all-zero directory entry. In that case, ext4fs_iterate_dir > would infinite loop. > > This patch detects when a directory entry's direntlen member is 0 and > returns a failure status, which breaks out of the infinite loop. As a > result, U-Boot will not find files that may subsequently be recovered > when the journal is replayed. > > This is better behaviour than hanging in an infinite loop, but as a > further improvement maybe U-Boot could interpret the ext3 journal and > actually find the unsynced entries. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Fitzsimmons <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <[email protected]>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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