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Bug related to 64-bit inodes

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Curt McDowell <csm <at> purestorage.com>
Cc: 29092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-idutils] bug#29092: Bug related to 64-bit inodes
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:36:53 -0800

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Curt McDowell <csm <at> purestorage.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running idutils 4.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 to index a large source base that is
> on an NFS-mounted filesystem that uses 64-bit inodes. mkid incorrectly
> issues many warnings such as the following:
>
> /home/csm/src/idutils-4.6/src/mkid: warning:
> `/df-csm/ir-csm7/platform/dot/ir/component/si5338/si5338.py' and
> `/df-csm/ir-csm7/hardware/perf/CTRL_systemC/src/demux.hpp' are the same
> file, but yield different scans!
>
> It turns out these inodes are equal in the lower 32 bits, but are not equal.
>
> % ls -li /df-csm/ir-csm7/platform/dot/ir/component/si5338/si5338.py
> /df-csm/ir-csm7/hardware/perf/CTRL_systemC/src/demux.hpp
> 33776997256654722 -rwxr-xr-x 1 csm staff  3290 May 22 22:03
> /df-csm/ir-csm7/hardware/perf/CTRL_systemC/src/demux.hpp
> 63050394834562946 -rw-r--r-- 1 csm staff 28973 May 22 22:03
> /df-csm/ir-csm7/platform/dot/ir/component/si5338/si5338.py
>
> The inode numbers in hex are 780000030FEF82 and E00000030FEF82,
> respectively.
>
> I believe the bug is that the inode hash functions should account for the
> size of the di_ino field in case it is 8 bytes wide, rather than assuming
> they are always 4 bytes:
>
> /****************************************************************************/
> /* Hash stuff for `struct dev_ino'.  */
>
> static unsigned long
> dev_ino_hash_1 (void const *key)
> {
>   unsigned long result = 0;
>   INTEGER_HASH_1 (((struct dev_ino const *) key)->di_dev, result);
>   INTEGER_HASH_1 (((struct dev_ino const *) key)->di_ino, result);
>   return result;
> }
>
> static unsigned long
> dev_ino_hash_2 (void const *key)
> {
>   unsigned long result = 0;
>   INTEGER_HASH_2 (((struct dev_ino const *) key)->di_dev, result);
>   INTEGER_HASH_2 (((struct dev_ino const *) key)->di_ino, result);
>   return result;
> }
>
> As an unrelated issue, in order to get idutils 4.6 to compile on Ubuntu
> 14.0.4 I had to edit lib/stdio.h and change "#if 1" to "#if 0" for the
> section that deals with the "gets" function (libc 2.19-0ubuntu6.13).

Thank you for the report.
That is definitely a bug -- and it is over two decades old!
I will fix this shortly, and will soon make a test release.

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