On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:47:20 +0100 > "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > While freeing indirect blocks we attach a journal head to the parent buffer > > head, free the blocks, then journal the parent. If the indirect block list > > is corrupted and points to the parent the journal head will be detached > > when the block is cleared, causing an OOPS. > > > > Check for that explicitly and handle it gracefully. > > > > This patch fixes the third case (image hdb.20000057.nullderef.gz) > > reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10882. > > Thanks. > > Quite a few minorish ext3 fixes are coming in lately. Is anyone > checking whether they are needed in ext4 and if so, porting them > over? > Hi Andrew, thanks for the reminder, I checked and think there are a few latest ext3 fixes need to port to ext4.. > -mm's current queue is: > > ext3-fix-synchronization-of-quota-files-in-journal=data-mode.patch > ext3-fix-typos-in-messages-and-comments-journalled-journaled.patch > ext3-correct-mount-option-parsing-to-detect-when-quota-options-can-be-changed.patch These three (ext4 version) have been pushed to Linus tree(May 14th) > jbd-replace-potentially-false-assertion-with-if-block.patch Ext4 has this fix in upstream already > jbd-eliminate-duplicated-code-in-revocation-table-init-destroy-functions.patch > jbd-tidy-up-revoke-cache-initialisation-and-destruction.patch Pushed to Linus already > ext3-improve-some-code-in-rb-tree-part-of-dirc.patch Ext4 version is queued in ext4 patch queue > jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction.patch > jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction-checkpatch-fixes.patch > jbd-fix-race-between-free-buffer-and-commit-trasanction-checkpatch-fixes-fix.patch jbd2 version is not needed with new ordered mode rewrite > ext3-remove-double-definitions-of-xattr-macros.patch ext4 version is in ext4 patch queue > ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount.patch > ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup.patch > ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-fix.patch > ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount-cleanup-fix.patch > ext3-dont-read-inode-block-if-the-buffer-has-a-write-error.patch > ext3-handle-deleting-corrupted-indirect-blocks.patch > These haven't port to ext4 yet. I could port them to ext4 if no one wants to do so. Mingming > -- > 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 -- 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
