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nilfs2: fix buggy behavior seen in enumerating checkpoints
authorRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tue, 7 Apr 2009 02:01:50 +0000 (19:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:31:18 +0000 (08:31 -0700)
commit76068c4ff1cc03d9d24d17fd9e6a1475bc2f6730
treeb2f56fbca8e7680135da5c610bd13283d8377a7f
parent8acfbf0939e98cc77dab94c24899c9930ddd1e13
nilfs2: fix buggy behavior seen in enumerating checkpoints

This will fix the weird behavior of lscp command in listing continuously
created checkpoints; the output of lscp is rewinded regularly for the
recent nilfs.  As a result of debugging, a defect was found in
nilfs_cpfile_do_get_cpinfo() function.

Though the function can be repeatedly called to enumerate checkpoints and
it can skip invalid checkpoint entries, the index value was not carried
between successive calls.

The bug has long been present, and came to surface after applying a bugfix
nilfs2-fix-problems-of-memory-allocation-in-ioctl.patch, which increased
frequency of calling the function.  The similar bugfix was already applied
for ``snapshots'' by
nilfs2-fix-gc-failure-on-volumes-keeping-numerous-snapshots.patch.

This fixes the problem by making the index argument bidirectional on the
function.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/nilfs2/cpfile.c