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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2010-03-30 16:42 [PATCH] e2fsck: make block counting variable in pass1 64 bits Eric Sandeen
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