The patch titled ext4: fix online resize bug has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext4-fix-online-resize-bug.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext4: fix online resize bug From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx> There is a bug when we are trying to verify that the reserve inode's double indirect blocks point back to the primary gdt blocks. The fix is obvious, we need to mod the gdb count by the addr's per block. This was verified using the same testcase as with the ext3 equivalent of this patch. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/resize.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext4/resize.c~ext4-fix-online-resize-bug fs/ext4/resize.c --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c~ext4-fix-online-resize-bug +++ a/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -563,7 +563,8 @@ static int reserve_backup_gdb(handle_t * } blk = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh->b_blocknr + 1 + EXT4_SB(sb)->s_gdb_count; - data = (__le32 *)dind->b_data + EXT4_SB(sb)->s_gdb_count; + data = (__le32 *)dind->b_data + (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_gdb_count % + EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(sb)); end = (__le32 *)dind->b_data + EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(sb); /* Get each reserved primary GDT block and verify it holds backups */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx are ext3-fix-online-resize-bug.patch ext4-fix-online-resize-bug.patch -- 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