linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock

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Date:	1 Nov 2012 02:12:12 -0400
From:	"George Spelvin" <linux@...izon.com>
To:	darrick.wong@...cle.com, tytso@....edu
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux@...izon.com, tm@....ma
Subject: Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock

> This one was cc'ed to stable@...r.kernel.org.  But when you said "I
> notice, that neither of thse have made it into 2.6.5", I assume you
> meant 3.5?

Whoops, typo!  I meant 3.6.5, the very latest just-out-today stable
kernel.

Quite a few 3.6.x kernels have come out since that patch was Cc'ed,
and it keeps not being included.  So I wondered.

> So that means it should eventually make it to the 3.4.x and 3.6.x
> kernels.

That's what I thought, but I didn't want to pester Greg until I was sure
of your intentions.

> At this point I'll just include it in the patches to be sent to Linus
> at the next merge window, mainly because I don't have the time to run
> a separate regression test run just for this patch, and it's only a
> cosmetic issue, right?

Well, it causes the file system to be marked dirty and unnecessarily
checked on reboot, which I contend is a bug, but it's not a data-loss
bug.

I do worry that it could cause file lookup to fail when it shouldn't,
which *is* effectively a data-loss bug, even if the data reappears
on reboot.  But I'd have to understand the problem and fix better to
know if that actually happens; I haven't observed it.
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