[PATCH] fs-tests: integck: limit the recursion depth

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 05:52:25 EDT 2011


From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>

I observes segfaults in integck test, and unfortunately I do not have the core
file to investigate the problem. But I see one possibility for the test to
segfault - it has unbounded recursion. Limit the maximum recursion depth.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
---
 tests/fs-tests/integrity/integck.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/fs-tests/integrity/integck.c b/tests/fs-tests/integrity/integck.c
index 1dd424e..a35b7ae 100644
--- a/tests/fs-tests/integrity/integck.c
+++ b/tests/fs-tests/integrity/integck.c
@@ -2094,11 +2094,20 @@ static int operate_on_file(struct file_info *file)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The operate on entry function is recursive because it calls
+ * 'operate_on_dir()' which calls 'operate_on_entry()' again. This variable is
+ * used to limit the recursion depth.
+ */
+static int recursion_depth;
+
 /* Randomly select something to do with a directory entry */
 static int operate_on_entry(struct dir_entry_info *entry)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	recursion_depth += 1;
+
 	/* 1 time in 1000 rename */
 	if (random_no(1000) == 0)
 		ret = rename_entry(entry);
@@ -2111,7 +2120,7 @@ static int operate_on_entry(struct dir_entry_info *entry)
 		/* If shrinking, 1 time in 50, remove a directory */
 		if (shrink && random_no(50) == 0)
 			ret = dir_remove(entry->dir);
-		else
+		else if (recursion_depth < 20)
 			ret = operate_on_dir(entry->dir);
 	} else if (entry->type == 'f') {
 		/* If shrinking, 1 time in 10, remove a file */
@@ -2124,6 +2133,8 @@ static int operate_on_entry(struct dir_entry_info *entry)
 		else
 			ret = operate_on_file(entry->file);
 	}
+
+	recursion_depth -= 1;
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.2.3




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