FYI: questionable xfsdump code

[Marc Lehmann]

Hi!

While causally browsing xfsdump code,I found this, in
common/getdents.c:getdents_wrap (in xfsdump

        off64_t last_offset = -1;

        ...

        while ((char *)kdp < kbuf + retval) {
                ...

                if ((sizeof(dp->d_ino) != sizeof(kdp->d_ino))
                    || (sizeof(dp->d_off) != sizeof(kdp->d_off))) {
                        /* Overflow.  If there was at least one entry
                           before this one, return them without error,
                           otherwise signal overflow.  */
                        if (last_offset != -1) {
                                lseek64(fd, last_offset, SEEK_SET);
                                return (char *)dp - buf;
                        }
                        errno = EOVERFLOW;
                        return -1;
                }

                last_offset = d_off;

                ...
        }

While not necessarily a bug, this comment is very confused - there is no
way to reach the code inside the if with last_offset != -1, as the if
condition is a compiletime constant.

This might be harmless dead code from some refactorisation gone wrong,
or indicative of some bug due to some logic error. In any case, I just
wanted to bring it to your attention.

And as a side note, memcpy would be more efficient here, especially as it
is called very often, (and especially so on irix :-):

                memmove(dp->d_name, kdp->d_name,
                        old_reclen - offsetof(struct kernel_dirent64, d_name));

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