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Commit b828d8c3 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Lachlan McIlroy
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xfs: sanity check attr fork size



Recently we have quite a few kerneloops reports about dereferencing a NULL
if_data in the attribute fork.  From looking over the code this can only
happen if we pass a 0 size argument to xfs_iformat_local.  This implies some
sort of corruption and in fact the only mailinglist report about this from
earlier this year was after a powerfail presumably on a system with write
cache and without barriers.

Add a quick sanity check for the attr fork size in xfs_iformat to catch
these early and without an oops.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
parent 49739140
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