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From: stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] genext2fs fix for supporting filesystems generated by genext2fs
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:42:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1675878.fdSUQkT314@pebbles.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0VBBOyMU5FuzkvfpBlfCP7iR6SB9MaMXELTyFvZ3CnRSFC4hP95hGza2L342I6Eb-V2rK944N1EU-B61xUrwGfPsHC3R5N5Rfb_fvo3op1Q=@protonmail.com>

On Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2016 19:25:21 CET FrostyBytes wrote:
> I found that the latest U-Boot cannot handle filesystems generated by
> genext2fs. Attempts to list such a filesystem results in divide by zero.
> 
> Using git bisect with a test script, I got:
> 
> f798b1dda1c5de818b806189e523d1b75db7e72d is the first bad commit
> 
> That commit changes to using fs->gdsize rather than a calculated descriptor
> size.
> 
> The problem is that ext4fs_mount does not set fs->gdsize when revision_level
> is zero.
> 
> The simplest fix seemed to be to plug in the old calculation into the case
> when revision_level is zero, which made the problem go away. I know next to
> nothing about the internals ext2/3/4, so this may not be the right thing to
> do. I'm attaching a patch anyways:
> 
> The patch is also available at the following URL if the mailer has mangled
> it: https://ptpb.pw/KcQI
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> index bfebe7e..fa83586 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> @@ -2334,6 +2334,7 @@ int ext4fs_mount(unsigned part_length)
> 
> if (le32_to_cpu(data->sblock.revision_level) == 0) {
> fs->inodesz = 128;
> + fs->gdsize = EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(data) / sizeof(struct ext2_block_group);
> } else {
> debug("EXT4 features COMPAT: %08x INCOMPAT: %08x RO_COMPAT: %08x\n",
> __le32_to_cpu(data->sblock.feature_compatibility),

Although you are correct in that the initialization is missing here, your 
patch is wrong, and may even corrupt the filesystem.

Just make it fs->gdsize = 32;

Kind regards,

Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-12 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12  0:25 [U-Boot] genext2fs fix for supporting filesystems generated by genext2fs FrostyBytes
2016-12-12 15:48 ` Tom Rini
2016-12-12 23:42 ` stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de [this message]

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