linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 35/34] e2fsck: free bh when descriptor block checksum fails

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Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:46:48 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 35/34] e2fsck: free bh when descriptor block checksum
 fails

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/14/14 12:19 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Free the buffer head if the journal descriptor block fails checksum
> > verification.  This has been patched before (see "e2fsck: free bh on
> > csum verify error in do_one_pass") but apparently the patch was never
> > committed to jbd2 in the kernel, so when we resync'd the recovery code
> > with 3.16, the bug came back.  Sigh.
> 
> Cool. 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
> 
> thanks for fixing up the kernel side... I hadn't thought about that,
> obviously.  :(

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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