[PATCH 1/2] xfs_logprint: Don't error out after split items lose context
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Wed Feb 26 19:27:55 CST 2014
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:13:25PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> xfs_logprint recognizes a "left over region from split log item"
> but then expects the *next* op to be a valid start to a new
> item. The problem is, we can split i.e. an xfs_inode_log_format
> item, skip over it, and then land on the xfs_icdinode_t
> data which follows it - this doesn't have a valid log item
> magic (XFS_LI_*) and we error out. This results in something
> like:
>
> xfs_logprint: unknown log operation type (494e)
>
> Fix this by recognizing that we've skipped over an item and
> lost the context we're in, so just continue skipping over
> op headers until we find the next valid start to a log item.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
Looks good - fixes the problem and does a good job of explaining it.
:)
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
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