linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2fsck: verify s_desc

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Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:07:38 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2fsck: verify s_desc_size is power-of-two value

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:19:03AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Add a LOG2_CHECK mode for check_super_value() so that it is easy
> to verify values that are supposed to be power-of-two values
> (s_desc_size and s_inode_size so far).  In ext2fs_check_desc()
> also check for a power-of-two s_desc_size.
> 
> Print out s_desc_size in debugfs "stats" and dumpe2fs output, if
> it is non-zero.
> 
> It turns out that the s_desc_size validation in check_super_block()
> is not currently used by e2fsck, because the group descriptors are
> verified earlier by ext2fs_check_desc(), and even without an
> explicit check of s_desc_size the group descriptors fail to align
> correctly on disk.  It makes sense to keep the check_super_block()
> regardless, in case the code changes at some point in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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