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

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:01:49 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] fix test in ext2fs_check_desc() for inode table within block group

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:50:26PM -0500, 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.

Thanks, committed into git (combined with the test case) and updated
commit log to include the Red Hat Bugzilla number.

						- Ted
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