On Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:18:30 AM +0300 Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > Certain disk corruptions and i/o errors may cause lookup() to panic, > which is wrong. This patch fixes the problem. > Please apply. Hmmm, none of the callers of reiserfs_find_entry have been changed to check for IO_ERROR. We should at least change reiserfs_add_entry to check for IO_ERROR, so it doesn't try to create a name after getting io error during the lookup. -chris --- linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig Tue Dec 25 16:27:27 2001 +++ linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c Tue Dec 25 16:29:13 2001 @@ -309,9 +309,10 @@ while (1) { retval = search_by_entry_key (dir->i_sb, &key_to_search, path_to_entry, de); - if (retval == IO_ERROR) - // FIXME: still has to be dealt with - reiserfs_panic (dir->i_sb, "zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n"); + if (retval == IO_ERROR) { + reiserfs_warning ("zam-7001: io error in " __FUNCTION__ "\n"); + return IO_ERROR; + } /* compare names for all entries having given hash value */ retval = linear_search_in_dir_item (&key_to_search, de, name, namelen); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/