linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] ext4: Check journal inode extents more carefully

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Date:   Fri, 7 Aug 2020 01:01:10 -0400
From:   tytso@....edu
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] ext4: Check journal inode extents more carefully

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This series changes ext4 to properly check extent tree blocks of journal inode.
> Omitting these (which is a limitation of block validity checks) leads to crash
> in ext4_cache_extents() in case the extent tree of the journal inode is
> suitably corrupted.

Thanks, I've applied this series.

					- Ted