From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] jbd2: Fix block tag checksum verification brokenness
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 01:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130511001432.GO25399@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130510233807.GB5706@blackbox.djwong.org>
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 04:38:07PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Al Viro complained of a ton of bogosity with regards to the jbd2 block tag
> header checksum. This one checksum is 16 bits, so cut off the upper 16 bits
> and treat it as a 16-bit value and don't mess around with be32* conversions.
> Fortunately metadata checksumming is still "experimental" and not in a shipping
> e2fsprogs, so there should be few users affected by this.
>
> v2: Eliminate unnecessary variables and make it clear(er) which values are 32
> bits wide.
>
> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
ACKed-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-11 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 23:38 [PATCH v2] jbd2: Fix block tag checksum verification brokenness Darrick J. Wong
2013-05-11 0:14 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-05-11 5:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-05-13 21:47 ` [PATCH v3] " Darrick J. Wong
2013-05-28 11:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
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