From: "Étienne Buira" <etienne.buira@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <mr@neil.brown.name>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Probable bug in md with rdev->new_data_offset
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 08:15:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160401061515.GA24288@rcKGHUlyQfVFW> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fghrj2n.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 04:31:28PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29 2016, Étienne Buira wrote:
../..
>
> I guess sb->new_offset should be called sb->delta_offset. If you look
> in md_p.h you will see:
>
> __le32 new_offset; /* signed number to add to data_offset in new
> * layout. 0 == no-change. This can be
> * different on each device in the array.
> */
>
> which goes some way to explaining the situation.
>
> NeilBrown
Hi Neil,
Thank you for the explanation, i have also looked at the sb loading
counterpart, and indeed, PAX did catch a false positive here.
For the record, the bug have been reported on Gentoo bugtracker [1].
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578502
Regards.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-28 10:31 Probable bug in md with rdev->new_data_offset Étienne Buira
2016-03-28 12:19 ` Phil Turmel
2016-03-29 11:07 ` Étienne Buira
2016-04-01 5:31 ` NeilBrown
2016-04-01 6:15 ` Étienne Buira [this message]
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