From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> rsv_end is the last block within the reservation, so alloc_new_reservation should accept start_block == rsv_end as success. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/balloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext3-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end fs/ext3/balloc.c --- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext3-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end +++ a/fs/ext3/balloc.c @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ retry: * check if the first free block is within the * free space we just reserved */ - if (start_block >= my_rsv->rsv_start && start_block < my_rsv->rsv_end) + if (start_block >= my_rsv->rsv_start && start_block <= my_rsv->rsv_end) return 0; /* success */ /* * if the first free bit we found is out of the reservable space _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html