From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][64-BIT] ext2fs_group_first_block2(): 32-bit truncation.
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:09:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E9D117.9050502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30396.1240034713@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
Nick Dokos wrote:
> ext2fs_group_first_block2() returns the product of the group number
> and the number of blocks per group (from the superblock). Unfortunately,
> both of these are 32-bit quantities, so the multiplication result is
> also 32 bits wide. It is then returned as a 64-bit quantity, but by then,
> it's too late.
>
> Cast one of the operands to blk64_t, so the multiplication will be done
> in 64 bits.
>
> e2fsck was complaining about a group that was marked BLOCK_UNINIT, but
> had blocks in use (it turned out that a different group had blocks in
> use, but the block numbers of the two different groups differed by
> 2^32, so this bug conflated them). With this change, this complaint
> goes away. In addition, dumpe2fs produces the right blocks for all the
> groups, whereas it was wrapping them at the 32-bit boundary previously.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
This one looks obviously correct, thanks.
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
> lib/ext2fs/blknum.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c b/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> index b9666fb..fd56d53 100644
> --- a/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/blknum.c
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dgrp_t ext2fs_group_of_blk2(ext2_filsys fs, blk64_t blk)
> blk64_t ext2fs_group_first_block2(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group)
> {
> return fs->super->s_first_data_block +
> - (group * fs->super->s_blocks_per_group);
> + ((blk64_t)group * fs->super->s_blocks_per_group);
> }
>
> /*
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 6:05 [PATCH 2/2][64-BIT] ext2fs_group_first_block2(): 32-bit truncation Nick Dokos
2009-04-18 13:09 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-04-21 0:50 ` Valerie Aurora Henson
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