btrfs-progs: return best entry, if it is the first one
authorGoldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:01:46 +0000 (09:01 -0600)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:49:31 +0000 (10:49 +0100)
The find_most_right_entry() tends to miss on the best entry if it is the
first one on the list and there are only two entries in the list.  So,
we assign both prev and best to entry.

To do this, the selection process (rather the rejection) has to be
performed earlier to skip on broken==count.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
cmds-check.c

index 57c4300..e28ad2f 100644 (file)
@@ -6808,11 +6808,6 @@ static struct extent_entry *find_most_right_entry(struct list_head *entries)
        struct extent_entry *entry, *best = NULL, *prev = NULL;
 
        list_for_each_entry(entry, entries, list) {
-               if (!prev) {
-                       prev = entry;
-                       continue;
-               }
-
                /*
                 * If there are as many broken entries as entries then we know
                 * not to trust this particular entry.
@@ -6821,6 +6816,16 @@ static struct extent_entry *find_most_right_entry(struct list_head *entries)
                        continue;
 
                /*
+                * Special case, when there are only two entries and 'best' is
+                * the first one
+                */
+               if (!prev) {
+                       best = entry;
+                       prev = entry;
+                       continue;
+               }
+
+               /*
                 * If our current entry == best then we can't be sure our best
                 * is really the best, so we need to keep searching.
                 */