linux-ext4 - + ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv

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Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:17:04 -0800
From:	akpm@...l.org
To:	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	hugh@...itas.com, cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: + ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch added to -mm tree


The patch titled
     ext4 balloc: fix off-by-one against rsv_end
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch

See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this

------------------------------------------------------
Subject: ext4 balloc: fix off-by-one against rsv_end
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>

rsv_end is the last block within the reservation, so alloc_new_reservation
should accept start_block == rsv_end as success.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
---

 fs/ext4/balloc.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end fs/ext4/balloc.c
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c~ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end
+++ a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ retry:
 	 * check if the first free block is within the
 	 * free space we just reserved
 	 */
-	if (start_block >= my_rsv->rsv_start && start_block < my_rsv->rsv_end)
+	if (start_block >= my_rsv->rsv_start && start_block <= my_rsv->rsv_end)
 		return 0;		/* success */
 	/*
 	 * if the first free bit we found is out of the reservable space
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh@...itas.com are

git-powerpc.patch
__unmap_hugepage_range-add-comment.patch
shared-page-table-for-hugetlb-page-v4.patch
htlb-forget-rss-with-pt-sharing.patch
mlock-cleanup.patch
always-print-out-the-header-line-in-proc-swaps.patch
reject-corrupt-swapfiles-earlier.patch
kill-install_file_ptes-pte_val.patch
honour-mnt_noexec-for-access.patch
ext3-fix-reservation-extension.patch
ext4-fix-reservation-extension.patch
ext4-balloc-reset-windowsz-when-full.patch
ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-grp_goal.patch
ext4-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch
ext4-balloc-say-rb_entry-not-list_entry.patch
ext4-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch
ext4-balloc-fix-_with_rsv-freeze.patch
ext3-balloc-reset-windowsz-when-full.patch
ext3-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-grp_goal.patch
ext3-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch
ext3-balloc-say-rb_entry-not-list_entry.patch
ext3-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch
ext3-balloc-fix-_with_rsv-freeze.patch
ext2-reservations.patch
ext2-balloc-fix-_with_rsv-freeze.patch
ext2-balloc-reset-windowsz-when-full.patch
ext2-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch
ext2-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-grp_goal.patch
ext2-balloc-say-rb_entry-not-list_entry.patch
ext2-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch
generic-bug-implementation.patch
generic-bug-implementation-handle-bug=n.patch
generic-bug-for-i386.patch
generic-bug-for-x86-64.patch
bug-test-1.patch
tty-switch-to-ktermios-powerpc-fix.patch

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