linux-ext4 - Broken e2fsck i

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Date:	Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:01:22 -0700
From:	Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@...il.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Broken e2fsck i_blocks repair

I've mentioned this before on here, but I never verified whether or
not it was actually broken.  I have done so today.  I manually
modified the block count of a 3TB file using debugfs, then ran e2fsck
on it.  e2fsck claimed to repair it, but would throw an error on every
subsequent e2fsck run for the same issue.  The reason is
inode->osd2.linux2.l_i_blocks_hi is always set to 0 if e2fsck is told
to fix it.  This is an issue in both stable 1.41.12, and in master.
This patch fixes it for me, but is there anything else that needs to
get checked here?

diff -urp e2fsprogs-1.41.12/e2fsck/pass1.c e2fsprogs-1.41.12-jm/e2fsck/pass1.c
--- e2fsprogs-1.41.12/e2fsck/pass1.c	2010-05-14 14:51:21.000000000 -0700
+++ e2fsprogs-1.41.12-jm/e2fsck/pass1.c	2010-09-01 15:54:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@ static void check_blocks(e2fsck_t ctx, s
 		pctx->num = pb.num_blocks;
 		if (fix_problem(ctx, PR_1_BAD_I_BLOCKS, pctx)) {
 			inode->i_blocks = pb.num_blocks;
-			inode->osd2.linux2.l_i_blocks_hi = 0;
+			inode->osd2.linux2.l_i_blocks_hi = (pb.num_blocks >> 32);
 			dirty_inode++;
 		}
 		pctx->num = 0;

-Justin
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