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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: Check for cases where EOFBLOCKS_FL is unnecessarily set
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:44:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100512004452.GY18762@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE9D4F3.9080003@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:06:43PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Some kernels will crash if EOFBLOCKS_FL is set when it is it not
> 
> Is there a kernel fix to go with this, then?

There will be; Dmitry sent a patch in the ext4 patch a while back.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/50469/

The fix to prevent the crash is tiny.  The rest of the patch I need to
review more carefully....  I'll get to it RSN.

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-12  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 20:31 [PATCH] e2fsck: Check for cases where EOFBLOCKS_FL is unnecessarily set Theodore Ts'o
2010-05-11 22:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-05-12  0:44   ` tytso [this message]
2010-05-12  1:10     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-05-12  1:44       ` tytso

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