linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: fix ext4_get_group

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Message-ID: <20130712014925.GC31005@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:49:25 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: fix ext4_get_group_number() at cluster
 boundaries

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:28:48PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Commit bd86298e60b8 introduced a new optimisation for callers who needed
> only the ext4 group number and not the block offset within.  It hand
> calculates the group number from the block in the common case, falling
> back to the original group offset implementation otherwise.

A fix for this problem is already in the ext4 tree, and will be pushed
to Linus shortly:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?h=dev&id=960fd856fdc3b08b3638f3f9b6b4bfceb77660c7

Cheers,

					- Ted


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