linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -V2 2/2] ext4: avoid resizing to a partial cluster size

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Message-Id: <165849767596.303416.9593678472601195632.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:58:22 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, okiselev@...zon.com
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 2/2] ext4: avoid resizing to a partial cluster size

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 04:27:48 +0000, Kiselev, Oleg wrote:
> This patch avoids an attempt to resize the filesystem to an
> unaligned cluster boundary.  An online resize to a size that is not
> integral to cluster size results in the last iteration attempting to
> grow the fs by a negative amount, which trips a BUG_ON and leaves the fs
> with a corrupted in-memory superblock.
> 
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[2/2] ext4: avoid resizing to a partial cluster size
      commit: 7c943cf3692f71226f462b80a1f367c788f84d1c

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>