Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: Fix endian problem in MMP initialization

[Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> As part of startup, the MMP initialization code does this:
> 
> mmp->mmp_seq = seq = cpu_to_le32(mmp_new_seq());
> 
> Next, mmp->mmp_seq is written out to disk, a delay happens, and then the MMP
> block is read back in and the sequence value is tested:
> 
> if (seq != le32_to_cpu(mmp->mmp_seq)) {
> 	/* fail the mount */
> 
> On a LE system such as x86, the *le32* functions do nothing and this works.
> Unfortunately, on a BE system such as ppc64, this comparison becomes:
> 
> if (cpu_to_le32(new_seq) != le32_to_cpu(cpu_to_le32(new_seq)) {
> 	/* fail the mount */
> 
> Except for a few palindromic sequence numbers, this test always
> causes the mount to fail, which makes MMP filesystems generally
> unmountable on ppc64.  The attached patch fixes this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

Thanks, this is already in the ext4 tree, although not yet in the
master branch (just the dev branch).

					- Ted