limit minixfs printks on corrupted dir i_size (CVE-2006-6058)
First reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry, etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back under control. Make the message a bit more informative while we're here. Adrian Bunk: Backported to 2.6.16. Signed-off-by:Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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