linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:06:17 +0200
From:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
To:	Avantika Mathur <mathur@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>,
	cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups

Hi Avantika,
I ran some tests with the uninit_groups feature enabled and got error messages
when running e2fsck on my ext4 partition. e2fsck complains of an "invalid 
unused inodes count" in some group descriptors.
These errors occur when checking groups which have only one inode in use. The 
"free inodes" count has been decremented by one in these groups but not the 
"unused inodes" count.

The following patch fixes the problem.

Andreas, could you check if my patch is correct?
Thanks a lot,
  Valérie

Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/fs/ext4/ialloc.c	2007-09-19 11:31:01.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/fs/ext4/ialloc.c	2007-09-19 11:31:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -633,13 +633,10 @@ got:
 	/* If we didn't allocate from within the initialized part of the inode
 	 * table then we need to initialize up to this inode. */
 	if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
-		if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
+		if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT))
 			gdp->bg_flags &= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT);
-			free = EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb);
-		} else {
-			free = EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) -
+		free = EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) -
 				le16_to_cpu(gdp->bg_itable_unused);
-		}
 
 		if (ino > free)
 			gdp->bg_itable_unused =


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