[PATCH] xfs_repair: fix array overrun in do_inode_prefetch

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Mon Mar 3 17:10:35 CST 2014


On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:13:58PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Coverity spotted this:
> 
> do_inode_prefetch() does a while loop, creating queues:
> 
>         for (i = 0; i < thread_count; i++) {
> 		...
> 		create_work_queue(&queues[i], mp, 1);
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> and then does this to wait for them all to complete:
> 
> 	for (; i >= 0; i--)
>  		destroy_work_queue(&queues[i]);
> 
> But we leave the first for loop with (i == thread_coun)t, and
> the second one will try to index queues[] one past the end.

ugh. My fault. Fix looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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