Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:04:30PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> Instead of just checking that the extent block number is greater or >>> equal than s_first_data_block, make sure it it is not pointing into >>> the block group descriptors, since that is clearly wrong. This helps >>> prevent filesystem from getting very badly corrupted in case an extent >>> block is corrupted. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> >> Good idea. Maybe we can get our friends with the corrupted fs to run >> with these validation patches... I can get this into rawhide at least. > > Yeah, unfortunately this patch requires some other patches that went > in during the 2.6.30 merge window, so some extra back-porting would be > needed for our friends running a 2.6.29.1 Fedora kernel. Right, but rawhide has .30-etc, so a test on that might be helpful. -Eric -- 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
