linux-ext4 - Re: BUG in ext4_ind_remove

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Date:   Thu, 3 Mar 2022 07:37:21 -0800
From:   Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG in ext4_ind_remove_space

On 3/3/22 06:56, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> On 22/03/02 03:14PM, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>> On 2/25/22 11:19, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>>>> I can verify this sometime next week when I get back to it.
>>>> But thanks for reporting the issue :)
>>>
>>> Next week is perfectly fine. Thanks for looking into it.
>>
>> Hi Ritesh,
>> Did you have chance to look into this?
>> If you want I can send a patch that fixes the off by 1 calculation error.
> 
> Hi Tadeusz,
> 
> I wanted to look at that path a bit more before sending that patch.
> Last analysis by me was more of a cursory look at the kernel dmesg log which you
> had shared.
> 
> In case if you want to pursue that issue and spend time on it, then feel free to
> do it.
> 
> I got pulled into number of other things last week and this week. So didn't get
> a chance to look into it yet. I hope to look into this soon (if no one else
> picks up :))

I'm not familiar with the internals of ext4 implementation so I would rather
have someone who knows it look at it.
I will wait till the end of this week and if there will be fix for it by then
I will send a patch fixing the off by 1 issue to get the ball rolling.

-- 
Thanks,
Tadeusz