linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] e2fsck: fix unaligned accesses to ext4_fc

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Date:   Thu, 6 May 2021 23:10:59 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] e2fsck: fix unaligned accesses to ext4_fc_tl struct

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 05:21:10PM -0700, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote:
> From: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
> 
> Fast commit related struct ext4_fc_tl can be unaligned on disk. So,
> while accessing that we should ensure that the pointers are
> aligned. This patch fixes unaligned accesses to ext4_fc_tl and also
> gets rid of macros fc_for_each_tl and ext4_fc_tag_val that may result
> in unaligned accesses to struct ext4_fc_tl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>

Looks good.  I wrote my reply with a proposed version of
ext4_fc_tag_val() before I saw your patch.

This patch wasn't enough to fix the sparc64 crash, but after doing
some additional investigation, I was able to figure out how to fix
things so that j_recovery_fast_commit is working on sparc64.  Patch
follows on this thread...

					- Ted