On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > b) doesn't fix anything that could be triggered - ext2_delete_entry()
> > can happen only if you've already done lookup. I.e. no problems had been
> > found in that block back when we were finding the entry.
>
> That means there is no need to check dir in ext2_check_dir_entry(),
> is there? If all callers to ext2_delete_entry() already verify the
> buffer in ext2_find_entry() (which they appear to do), then there is
> no point in calling ext2_check_dir_entry() at all.
<shrug> modulo memory corruption right under you - yes.
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