linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] fix test in ext2fs_check_desc() for inode table within block group

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:04:32 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] fix test in ext2fs_check_desc() for inode table
 within block group

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The test in ext2fs_check_desc() is off by one; if the inode table
> goes all the way to the last block of the block group, it will 
> falsely assert that it has extended past it.  The last block
> of a range is start + len -1, not start + len.
> 
(btw the kernel has this same problem, so it's not mountable either -
will send that patch Monday)

-Eric
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