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xfs_repair catches fork size/format mismatches, but the in-kernel verifier doesn't, leading to null pointer failures when attempting to perform operations on the fork. This can occur in the xfs_dir_is_empty() where the in-memory fork format does not match the size and so the fork data pointer is accessed incorrectly. Note: this causes new failures in xfs/348 which is testing mode vs ftype mismatches. We now detect a regular file that has been changed to a directory or symlink mode as being corrupt because the data fork is for a symlink or directory should be in local form when there are only 3 bytes of data in the data fork. Hence the inode verify for the regular file now fires w/ -EFSCORRUPTED because the inode fork format does not match the format the corrupted mode says it should be in. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.