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Message-ID: <20140512142457.GG31376@thunk.org> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:24:57 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: don't crash when validating block bitmap On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:17:47PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > If EXT4FS_DEBUG is defined, ext4_validate_block_bitmap is called via > ext4_count_free_clusters before sb->s_group_info is set up. When this > happens, the kernel crashes because group info hasn't been loaded. > Forego marking the group corrupt for now; not setting BH_Verified > means we'll revisit the bitmap if something went wrong. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> This shouldn't be necessary that we have this in the ext4 tree, right? commit 007649375f6af242d5b1df2c15996949714303ba Author: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@...il.com> Date: Mon Apr 7 10:54:20 2014 -0400 ext4: initialize multi-block allocator before checking block descriptors With EXT4FS_DEBUG ext4_count_free_clusters() will call ext4_read_block_bitmap() without s_group_info initialized, so we need to initialize multi-block allocator before. ... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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