linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:30:03 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>, cmm@...ibm.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sho@...s.nec.co.jp, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size

On Thu 04-10-07 16:11:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:40:44 -0600
> Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 04, 2007  13:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:35:46 -0700
> > > > ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
> > > > 
> > > > into 16 bits we have for entry lenght. So we store 0xffff instead and
> > > > convert value when read from / written to disk.
> > > 
> > > This patch clashes in non-trivial ways with
> > > ext2-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch and perhaps other things which are
> > > already queued for 2.6.24 inclusion, so I'll need to ask for an updated
> > > patch, please.
> > 
> > If the rel_len overflow patch isn't going to make it, then we also need
> > to revert the EXT*_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE change to 65536.  It would be possible
> > to allow this to be up to 32768 w/o the rec_len overflow fix however.
> > 
> 
> Ok, thanks, I dropped ext3-support-large-blocksize-up-to-pagesize.patch and
> ext2-support-large-blocksize-up-to-pagesize.patch.
  Sorry, for the delayed answer but I had some urgent bugs to fix...
Why did you drom ext3-support-large-blocksize-up-to-pagesize.patch? As far
as I understand your previous email (and also as I've checked against
2.6.23-rc8-mm2), the patch fixing rec_len overflow clashes only for ext2...
  I'll send you an updated patch for ext2 in a moment.

									Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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