Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out

[Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>]

* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:22:04PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out
> > 
> > From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
> > 
> > When an extent was zeroed out, we forgot to do convert from cpu to le16.
> > It could make us hit a BUG_ON when we try to write dirty pages out.  So
> > fix it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
> 
> Thanks for finding this!  I think we should push this to Linus right
> away, and not wait for the next merge window.  The bug has been here
> for a long time, but it was unmasked by the fact that we unbroke
> extent zeroing in 3.9-rcX.
> 
> I have two big questions.  (1) Shouldn't Eric Whitney have picked this
> up with his ARM pandaboard testing, since IIRC it's big-endian as
> well?  If not, is there something we can do to improve our testing wrt
> to big-endian systems?


The TI OMAP4 processor on my Pandaboard test system is little endian.

Eric


> 
> And (2) does it make sense to have an inline function
> ext4_ext_set_len(len)?  It might save some lines of code, but more
> importantly, it might make it less likely that we will overlook this
> sort of bug in the future.
> 
> 					- Ted
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