linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix partial cluster initialization when splitting extent

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:58:02 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     enwlinux@...il.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix partial cluster initialization when splitting
 extent

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:18:44PM +0800, Jeffle Xu wrote:
> Fix the bug when calculating the physical block number of the first
> block in the split extent.
> 
> This bug will cause xfstests shared/298 failure on ext4 with bigalloc
> enabled occasionally. Ext4 error messages indicate that previously freed
> blocks are being freed again, and the following fsck will fail due to
> the inconsistency of block bitmap and bg descriptor.

Applied, thanks.

	 					- Ted