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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][64-BIT] ext2fs_group_first_block2(): 32-bit truncation.
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:09:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E9D117.9050502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30396.1240034713@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>

Nick Dokos wrote:
> ext2fs_group_first_block2() returns the product of the group number
> and the number of blocks per group (from the superblock). Unfortunately,
> both of these are 32-bit quantities, so the multiplication result is
> also 32 bits wide. It is then returned as a 64-bit quantity, but by then,
> it's too late.
> 
> Cast one of the operands to blk64_t, so the multiplication will be done
> in 64 bits.
> 
> e2fsck was complaining about a group that was marked BLOCK_UNINIT, but
> had blocks in use (it turned out that a different group had blocks in
> use, but the block numbers of the two different groups differed by
> 2^32, so this bug conflated them). With this change, this complaint
> goes away. In addition, dumpe2fs produces the right blocks for all the
> groups, whereas it was wrapping them at the 32-bit boundary previously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>

This one looks obviously correct, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

> ---
>  lib/ext2fs/blknum.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c b/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> index b9666fb..fd56d53 100644
> --- a/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dgrp_t ext2fs_group_of_blk2(ext2_filsys fs, blk64_t blk)
>  blk64_t ext2fs_group_first_block2(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group)
>  {
>  	return fs->super->s_first_data_block +
> -		(group * fs->super->s_blocks_per_group);
> +		((blk64_t)group * fs->super->s_blocks_per_group);
>  }
>  
>  /*


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-18 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-18  6:05 [PATCH 2/2][64-BIT] ext2fs_group_first_block2(): 32-bit truncation Nick Dokos
2009-04-18 13:09 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-04-21  0:50 ` Valerie Aurora Henson

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