2007-08-01 00:17:28

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: - ext4_ext_put_in_cache-uses-__u32-to-receive-physical.patch removed from -mm tree


The patch titled
"ext4_ext_put_in_cache" uses __u32 to receive physical block number
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ext4_ext_put_in_cache-uses-__u32-to-receive-physical.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: "ext4_ext_put_in_cache" uses __u32 to receive physical block number
From: Mingming Cao <[email protected]>

Yan Zheng wrote:

> I think I found a bug in ext4/extents.c, "ext4_ext_put_in_cache" uses
> "__u32" to receive physical block number. "ext4_ext_put_in_cache" is
> used in "ext4_ext_get_blocks", it sets ext4 inode's extent cache
> according most recently tree lookup (higher 16 bits of saved physical
> block number are always zero). when serving a mapping request,
> "ext4_ext_get_blocks" first check whether the logical block is in
> inode's extent cache. if the logical block is in the cache and the
> cached region isn't a gap, "ext4_ext_get_blocks" gets physical block
> number by using cached region's physical block number and offset in
> the cached region. as described above, "ext4_ext_get_blocks" may
> return wrong result when there are physical block numbers bigger than
> 0xffffffff.
>

You are right. Thanks for reporting this!

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[email protected]>
Cc: Yan Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/ext4/extents.c~ext4_ext_put_in_cache-uses-__u32-to-receive-physical fs/ext4/extents.c
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c~ext4_ext_put_in_cache-uses-__u32-to-receive-physical
+++ a/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ int ext4_ext_walk_space(struct inode *in

static void
ext4_ext_put_in_cache(struct inode *inode, __u32 block,
- __u32 len, __u32 start, int type)
+ __u32 len, ext4_fsblk_t start, int type)
{
struct ext4_ext_cache *cex;
BUG_ON(len == 0);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

origin.patch
convert-ill-defined-log2-to-ilog2.patch
ext2-reservations.patch
fix-for-ext2-reservation.patch
ext2-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch