linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext3 : Remove redundant condition in ext3_free_blocks

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Message-ID: <20080603132030.GD8434@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:20:30 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3 : Remove redundant condition in ext3_free_blocks_sb()

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:40:32AM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote:
> Oooops....my bad, but I doubt if we pass such values in ext* code anywhere.

If we have a corrupt filesystem, we can pass total garbage here.  This
check prevents that from corrupting the filesystem further.  Patch NAKed
with extreme prejudice.

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