ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage
problems, or due to invalid size & blocks from corruption) will generate a
printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks.
This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may
be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.

This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to
read the directory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext2/dir.c b/fs/ext2/dir.c
index a78c6b4af060..11a49ce84392 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/dir.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int ext2_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static void ext2_check_page(struct page *page)
+static void ext2_check_page(struct page *page, int quiet)
 {
 	struct inode *dir = page->mapping->host;
 	struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb;
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ out:
 	/* Too bad, we had an error */
 
 Ebadsize:
-	ext2_error(sb, "ext2_check_page",
-		"size of directory #%lu is not a multiple of chunk size",
-		dir->i_ino
-	);
+	if (!quiet)
+		ext2_error(sb, __func__,
+			"size of directory #%lu is not a multiple "
+			"of chunk size", dir->i_ino);
 	goto fail;
 Eshort:
 	error = "rec_len is smaller than minimal";
@@ -166,32 +166,36 @@ Espan:
 Einumber:
 	error = "inode out of bounds";
 bad_entry:
-	ext2_error (sb, "ext2_check_page", "bad entry in directory #%lu: %s - "
-		"offset=%lu, inode=%lu, rec_len=%d, name_len=%d",
-		dir->i_ino, error, (page->index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)+offs,
-		(unsigned long) le32_to_cpu(p->inode),
-		rec_len, p->name_len);
+	if (!quiet)
+		ext2_error(sb, __func__, "bad entry in directory #%lu: : %s - "
+			"offset=%lu, inode=%lu, rec_len=%d, name_len=%d",
+			dir->i_ino, error, (page->index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)+offs,
+			(unsigned long) le32_to_cpu(p->inode),
+			rec_len, p->name_len);
 	goto fail;
 Eend:
-	p = (ext2_dirent *)(kaddr + offs);
-	ext2_error (sb, "ext2_check_page",
-		"entry in directory #%lu spans the page boundary"
-		"offset=%lu, inode=%lu",
-		dir->i_ino, (page->index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)+offs,
-		(unsigned long) le32_to_cpu(p->inode));
+	if (!quiet) {
+		p = (ext2_dirent *)(kaddr + offs);
+		ext2_error(sb, "ext2_check_page",
+			"entry in directory #%lu spans the page boundary"
+			"offset=%lu, inode=%lu",
+			dir->i_ino, (page->index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)+offs,
+			(unsigned long) le32_to_cpu(p->inode));
+	}
 fail:
 	SetPageChecked(page);
 	SetPageError(page);
 }
 
-static struct page * ext2_get_page(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n)
+static struct page * ext2_get_page(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n,
+				   int quiet)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = dir->i_mapping;
 	struct page *page = read_mapping_page(mapping, n, NULL);
 	if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
 		kmap(page);
 		if (!PageChecked(page))
-			ext2_check_page(page);
+			ext2_check_page(page, quiet);
 		if (PageError(page))
 			goto fail;
 	}
@@ -292,7 +296,7 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 	for ( ; n < npages; n++, offset = 0) {
 		char *kaddr, *limit;
 		ext2_dirent *de;
-		struct page *page = ext2_get_page(inode, n);
+		struct page *page = ext2_get_page(inode, n, 0);
 
 		if (IS_ERR(page)) {
 			ext2_error(sb, __func__,
@@ -361,6 +365,7 @@ struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_find_entry (struct inode * dir,
 	struct page *page = NULL;
 	struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(dir);
 	ext2_dirent * de;
+	int dir_has_error = 0;
 
 	if (npages == 0)
 		goto out;
@@ -374,7 +379,7 @@ struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_find_entry (struct inode * dir,
 	n = start;
 	do {
 		char *kaddr;
-		page = ext2_get_page(dir, n);
+		page = ext2_get_page(dir, n, dir_has_error);
 		if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
 			kaddr = page_address(page);
 			de = (ext2_dirent *) kaddr;
@@ -391,7 +396,9 @@ struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_find_entry (struct inode * dir,
 				de = ext2_next_entry(de);
 			}
 			ext2_put_page(page);
-		}
+		} else
+			dir_has_error = 1;
+
 		if (++n >= npages)
 			n = 0;
 		/* next page is past the blocks we've got */
@@ -414,7 +421,7 @@ found:
 
 struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * ext2_dotdot (struct inode *dir, struct page **p)
 {
-	struct page *page = ext2_get_page(dir, 0);
+	struct page *page = ext2_get_page(dir, 0, 0);
 	ext2_dirent *de = NULL;
 
 	if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
@@ -487,7 +494,7 @@ int ext2_add_link (struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
 	for (n = 0; n <= npages; n++) {
 		char *dir_end;
 
-		page = ext2_get_page(dir, n);
+		page = ext2_get_page(dir, n, 0);
 		err = PTR_ERR(page);
 		if (IS_ERR(page))
 			goto out;
@@ -655,14 +662,17 @@ int ext2_empty_dir (struct inode * inode)
 {
 	struct page *page = NULL;
 	unsigned long i, npages = dir_pages(inode);
+	int dir_has_error = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
 		char *kaddr;
 		ext2_dirent * de;
-		page = ext2_get_page(inode, i);
+		page = ext2_get_page(inode, i, dir_has_error);
 
-		if (IS_ERR(page))
+		if (IS_ERR(page)) {
+			dir_has_error = 1;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		kaddr = page_address(page);
 		de = (ext2_dirent *)kaddr;