linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 09/31] libext2fs: Rewind extent pointer when totally deleting an extent

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Date:	Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:37:25 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/31] libext2fs: Rewind extent pointer when totally
 deleting an extent

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 06:27:40PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> During a punch operation, if we decide to delete an extent out of the extent
> tree, the subsequent extents are moved on top of the current extent (that is to
> say, they're memmmove'd down one slot).  Therefore it is not correct to advance
> to the next leaf because that means we miss half the extents in the range!
> Rereading the current pointer should be fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

BTW, in the future, this is the sort of change where creating a
regression test would be highly appreciated --- especially since you
presumably had to create test cases while you were creating the patch,
so it's much less effort to encapsulate it into a test case while
developing the patch.

					- Ted
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