On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > This was dropped from 2.6.16-stable somehow: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/30/54 Thanks for forwarding it. This patch didn't went in this form into Linus' tree, I'd therefore like to get an ACK from the ext3 maintainers (Cc'ed) before applying it. > Below is probably mangled by Thunderbird, you'll have > to fetch it yourself if you want to merge it: patch(1) has a nice -l option for applying such patches. :-) > From: Kirill Korotaev <> > > This patch fixes ext3 block bitmap leakage, > which leads to the following fsck messages on > _healthy_ filesystem: > Block bitmap differences: -64159 -73707 > > All kernels up to 2.6.17 have this bug. > > Found by > Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx> and Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxx> > Test case triggered the issue was created by > Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxx> > > Signed-Off-By: Vasiliy Averin <vvs@xxxxx> > Signed-Off-By: Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxx> > > --- ./fs/ext3/inode.c.e3crp 2006-06-28 05:22:40.000000000 +0400 > +++ ./fs/ext3/inode.c 2006-06-27 13:31:20.000000000 +0400 > @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h > > branch[0].key = cpu_to_le32(parent); > if (parent) { > + keys = 1; > for (n = 1; n < num; n++) { > struct buffer_head *bh; > /* Allocate the next block */ cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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
