linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/9] e2fsck: fix overflow if more than 4B inodes

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Date:   Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:35:13 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] e2fsck: fix overflow if more than 4B inodes

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:09:44PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Even though we don't have support for filesystems with over 4B inodes
> in the current e2fsprogs, this may happen in the future.  There are
> latent overflow bugs when calculating the number of inodes in the
> filesystem that can trivially be fixed now, rather than waiting for
> them to be hit at some point in the future.  The block number calcs
> are already correct in this code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
> Lustre-bug-id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-13197

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted