linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 02/25] libext2fs: report bad magic over bad sb checksum

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Message-ID: <20140911164313.GJ26178@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:43:13 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/25] libext2fs: report bad magic over bad sb checksum

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> We don't want ext2fs_open2() to report bad sb checksum on something
> that's not even an ext* superblock.  This apparently happens pretty
> easily if we try to open an XFS filesystem.  Thus, make it so that a
> bad magic number code always trumps the sb checksum error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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