linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 48/47] misc: fix infinite loop when finding the start of the hugefile start range

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Message-ID: <20141203030650.GN13618@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2014 22:06:50 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 48/47] misc: fix infinite loop when finding the start of
 the hugefile start range

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:43:29PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When looking for the start of the hugefile range, the 'next' variable
> is incorrectly decremented.  If we happened to find a single free
> block, the effect of this decrement is that blk == next, which means
> that we never modify the loop control variable, so get_start_block
> never returns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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