Hi Andrew,
here's the patch I wrote you about.
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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Commit block was intended to have several copies of the header. But
due to a bug it never had them and actually, nobody checks that. So
just remove the useless loop.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 610264b..b54948f 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ static int journal_write_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
{
struct journal_head *descriptor;
struct buffer_head *bh;
- int i, ret;
+ journal_header_t *header;
+ int ret;
int barrier_done = 0;
if (is_journal_aborted(journal))
@@ -116,13 +117,10 @@ static int journal_write_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
bh = jh2bh(descriptor);
- /* AKPM: buglet - add `i' to tmp! */
- for (i = 0; i < bh->b_size; i += 512) {
- journal_header_t *tmp = (journal_header_t*)bh->b_data;
- tmp->h_magic = cpu_to_be32(JFS_MAGIC_NUMBER);
- tmp->h_blocktype = cpu_to_be32(JFS_COMMIT_BLOCK);
- tmp->h_sequence = cpu_to_be32(commit_transaction->t_tid);
- }
+ header = (journal_header_t*)(bh->b_data);
+ header->h_magic = cpu_to_be32(JFS_MAGIC_NUMBER);
+ header->h_blocktype = cpu_to_be32(JFS_COMMIT_BLOCK);
+ header->h_sequence = cpu_to_be32(commit_transaction->t_tid);
JBUFFER_TRACE(descriptor, "write commit block");
set_buffer_dirty(bh);