From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Check extent overflow with the right range. Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:07:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20111018150745.GA17025@thunk.org> References: <20111017081036.GN30887@longonot.mountain> <1318841128-4540-1-git-send-email-tm@tao.ma> <20111017141605.GA25017@thunk.org> <4E9CE414.9040706@tao.ma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Tao Ma Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:57307 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932382Ab1JRPHs (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:07:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E9CE414.9040706@tao.ma> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:27:32AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: > We have met with some corruption, but not sure whether it is related to > this or not. To be honest, we went through the code and find that this > may be a possible cause. So if you think it could never happen, we are > OK to drop this patch. I have no problem adding sanity checks; it makes for more robust code. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a real bug hiding somewhere that wasn't getting addressed. Thanks, - Ted