linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] fix oops on corrupted ext4 mount

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Date:	Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:44:51 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix oops on corrupted ext4 mount

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> When mounting an ext4 filesystem with corrupted s_first_data_block, things 
> can go very wrong and oops.
> 
> Because blocks_count in ext4_fill_super is a u64, and we must use do_div, 
> the calculation of db_count is done differently than on ext4.

Urgh... "than on ext3"

-Eric
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