Re: V3 minixfs bug

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:13:42 -0400
"Doug Graham" <dgraham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is anybody interested in bugs in the minixfs V3 support that probably
> only turn up on big-endian machines, or on filesystems with more than
> 64K inodes?

If you've found them then yes.

> The problem is that that there are a few places (three that I've found)
> where the "inode" field of a minix_dir_entry is used without checking
> first to see if the dirent is really a minix3_dir_entry.  The inode number
> in a V1/V2 dirent is 16 bits, whereas that in a V3 dirent is 32 bits.  
> Accessing
> it as a 16 bit field when it really should be accessed as a 32 bit field
> probably kinda sorta works on a little-endian machine, but leads to some
> rather odd behaviour on big-endian machines.
> 
> Here's a patch:

The one thing this needs for application is a Signed-off-by: line (see
Documentation/SubmittingPatches). 

Alan
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