[PATCH] Use the incore inode size in xfs_file_readdir()
Lachlan McIlroy
lachlan at sgi.com
Thu Dec 4 21:22:55 CST 2008
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:59:08PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> We should be using the incore inode size here not the linux inode
>> size. The incore inode size is always up to date for directories
>> whereas the linux inode size is not updated for directories.
>>
>> We've hit assertions in xfs_bmap() and traced it back to the linux
>> inode size being zero here but the incore size being correct.
>
> Heh. Looks good, but you can still call ->readdir with a 0 inode size,
> so you might want to check for that (actualyl I think other pathes
> are goign to take care of it, but..)
What if we remove bufsize and pass PAGE_SIZE into xfs_readdir()?
No need to worry about a 0 inode size.
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