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Commit 51828e03 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Adrian Bunk
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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: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
parent bb32327b
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