Re: [PATCH v3] xfstests: add test for btrfs incremental send infinite loop issue

[Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>]

On 01/23/2014 06:38 PM, Filipe David Borba Manana wrote:
> Regression test for btrfs' incremental send feature:
>
> 1) Create several nested directories;
>
> 2) Create a read only snapshot;
>
> 3) Change the parentship of some of the deepest directories in a reverse
>     way, so that parents become children and children become parents;
>
> 4) Create another read only snapshot and use it for an incremental send
>     relative to the first snapshot.
>
> At step 4 btrfs' send entered an infinite loop, increasing the memory it
> used while building path strings until a krealloc was unable to allocate
> more memory, which caused a warning dump in dmesg.
>
> The following linux kernel patch fixes this issue.
>
>     Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send
>     (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3522361/)
>
> Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>

Thanks,

Josef