linux-ext4 - Re: 2.6.29-git: cannot mount ext4/loop

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Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:18:39 +0200
From:	Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@...tum.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-git: cannot mount ext4/loop

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
>> When I added the block range checks, initially I was assuming that
>> when EXTENTS_FL is not set, the inode->i_data *always* contains
>> references to further blocks.  Ted showed me wrong and added the condition
>>
>> 	ISREG() || ISDIR() || ( ISLNK() && !is_fast_symlink() )
>>
>> before that assumption can be made.  But maybe we need some further
>> restraints?
> 
> It's a endian-problem; we're missing le32_to_cpu() in that patch.
> Sparc is big-endian. 

Sorry for that.

Thiemo

---
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 98e289a..ec3555d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -377,11 +377,11 @@ static int __ext4_check_blockref(const char 
*function, struct inode *inode,
         unsigned int maxblocks = 
ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es);
         unsigned int *bref = p;
         while (bref < p+max) {
-               if (unlikely(*bref >= maxblocks)) {
+               if (unlikely(le32_to_cpu(*bref) >= maxblocks)) {
                         ext4_error(inode->i_sb, function,
                                    "block reference %u >= max (%u) "
                                    "in inode #%lu, offset=%d",
-                                  *bref, maxblocks,
+                                  le32_to_cpu(*bref), maxblocks,
                                    inode->i_ino, (int)(bref-p));
                         return -EIO;
                 }
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