Re: BUG: Assertion failure with ext3-0.95 for 2.4.7

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> Hello ext3-users,
> 
> I tested ext3 on a Linux for S/390 with several stress and benchmark test
> tests and faced a kernel bug message.
> The console showed the following output:
> 
> Message from syslogd@boeaet34 at Fri Aug  3 11:34:16 2001 ...
> boeaet34 kernel: Assertion failure in journal_forget() at
> transaction.c:1184: "!
> jh->b_committed_data"
> 

Simple bug, subtle symptoms.  Could you please retest 0.9.5
with this patch?  Thanks.

--- ext3-0_9_5/fs/ext3/inode.c	Mon Jul 30 05:46:12 2001
+++ ext3/fs/ext3/inode.c	Thu Aug  9 00:03:34 2001
@@ -1522,7 +1523,7 @@
 	 * AKPM: turn on bforget in journal_forget()!!!
 	 */
 	for (p = first; p < last; p++) {
-		u32 nr = *p;
+		u32 nr = le32_to_cpu(*p);
 		if (nr) {
 			struct buffer_head *bh;
 

Now, if all on-disk structures were defined in terms of something
like

	struct disk32 {
		u32 x;
	}

then these things wold never happen - the compiler would catch
it.

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