On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Using the attached disk image I observe that getdents() never returns > the end of the directory, i.e. mounting the disk image on a loopback > device and running 'ls' under strace shows an endless stream of: > > getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 32768) = 48 > getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 32768) = 48 > getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 32768) = 48 > ...
Please more details. Is this image hand crafted? If not, how has it been created? Is is supposed to work? >From a quick look it seems as the root directory is bad but we report progress in ->iterate. ctx->pos is 2, we set it back to 0, because of the faked dot entries. but fat_get_entry() did not make any progress and we report 0 back to VFS. So, VFS sees progress and the game continues. Does the attached patch help? -- Thanks, //richard
diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c index 4afc4d9..7f66a38 100644 --- a/fs/fat/dir.c +++ b/fs/fat/dir.c @@ -586,8 +586,12 @@ static int __fat_readdir(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bh = NULL; get_new: - if (fat_get_entry(inode, &cpos, &bh, &de) == -1) + if (fat_get_entry(inode, &cpos, &bh, &de) == -1) { + if (cpos == 0) + cpos = 2; + goto end_of_dir; + } parse_record: nr_slots = 0; /*