Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Dave Chinner
authored
When the directory freespace index grows to a second block (2017 4k data blocks in the directory), the initialisation of the second new block header goes wrong. The write verifier fires a corruption error indicating that the block number in the header is zero. This was being tripped by xfs/110. The problem is that the initialisation of the new block is done just fine in xfs_dir3_free_get_buf(), but the caller then users a dirv2 structure to zero on-disk header fields that xfs_dir3_free_get_buf() has already zeroed. These lined up with the block number in the dir v3 header format. While looking at this, I noticed that the struct xfs_dir3_free_hdr() had 4 bytes of padding in it that wasn't defined as padding or being zeroed by the initialisation. Add a pad field declaration and fully zero the on disk and in-core headers in xfs_dir3_free_get_buf() so that this is never an issue in the future. Note that this doesn't change the on-disk layout, just makes the 32 bits of padding in the layout explicit. Signed-off-by:Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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