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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: make block counting variable in pass1 64 bits
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:35:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100513173504.GA13321@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB22A0B.2000303@redhat.com>

Applied to the maint branch

				- Ted

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:42:51AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Justin reported that creating a 4T file with posix_fallocate led
> to fsck errors:
> 
> e2fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Inode 12, i_blocks is 8589935432, should be 840.  Fix? yes
> 
> This looks like a 32-bit overflow.
> 
> commmit 8a8f36540bbf5d4397cf476e216e9a720b5c1d8e added handling of
> the high i_blocks number, but we accumulate blocks in the num_blocks
> field, and that's still just 32 bits.
> 
> Note: we don't need to expand max_blocks for now, that's only used
> in the non-extents case, and those files have smaller max sizes.
> 
> I haven't been able to replicate the problem, oddly, but Justin
> reports that this patch fixed his situation.
> 
> Reported-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> (resend, a thunderbird upgrade changed things so vger was eating my patches)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/e2fsck/pass1.c b/e2fsck/pass1.c
> index 09ff1d0..8c8fe8c 100644
> --- a/e2fsck/pass1.c
> +++ b/e2fsck/pass1.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct process_block_struct {
>  	ext2_ino_t	ino;
>  	unsigned	is_dir:1, is_reg:1, clear:1, suppress:1,
>  				fragmented:1, compressed:1, bbcheck:1;
> -	blk_t		num_blocks;
> +	blk64_t		num_blocks;
>  	blk_t		max_blocks;
>  	e2_blkcnt_t	last_block;
>  	int		num_illegal_blocks;
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 16:42 [PATCH] e2fsck: make block counting variable in pass1 64 bits Eric Sandeen
2010-05-13 17:35 ` tytso [this message]

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