linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Endianness bugs in e2fsck

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:20:58 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Endianness bugs in e2fsck

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:03:08PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> In ext2fs_swap_inode_full() if to and from inodes are not the same
> (which is the case when called from e2fsck_get_next_inode_full),
> then e2fsck cannot recognize any in-inode EAs since the un-swabbed
> i_extra_isize was being used. So corrected that to use swabbed
> values all the time.

Actually, this is wrong.  Remember, the swab functions are used to
swap *from* and *to* host byte order and on-disk order.  So yes, there
was a bug in that we were also using the f->i_extra_size, but using
t->i_extra_size is also going to be wrong in some cases.  That's what
the hostorder parameter to ext2fs_swap_inode_full() is for.

					- Ted
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