linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix incorrect n_blocks_count result when resizing file system to size larger than 2^32 blocks

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Message-ID: <20170806051856.k4ftzkslzciujxnv@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 6 Aug 2017 01:18:56 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jerry Lee <jerrylee@...p.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix incorrect n_blocks_count result when resizing
 file system to size larger than 2^32 blocks

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 02:23:55PM +0800, Jerry Lee wrote:
> On 32-bit platform, the value of n_blcoks_count may be wrong during the
> file system is resized to size larger than 2^32 blocks.  This may caused
> the superblock being corrupted with zero blocks count.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jerry Lee <jerrylee@...p.com>

Thanks, applied.

				- Ted