Am 25.06.2012 18:38, schrieb Jeff Moyer: > "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 07:59:30AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> a software that tries to mount each existing partition as ext3 file system started to fail when updating from v3.3.7 to v3.3.8. >>> >>> The applications then hangs-up in the mount syscall, here is a snapshot of its stack at this moment: >> >> We just ran into what we think is the same problem. >> >> Note that ext4 fails like this for any 1024 byte sized filesystem (of >> zeroes) that you try to mount. It's really nothing to do with >> extended partitions. >> >> Here is a very simple reproducer + stack trace: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019#c4 >> >> I will try out the patch suggested later on in this thread. > > Please try the attached patch instead. The patch I had originally > posted for this allowed marking the first buffer beyond EOD as > uptodate. This isn't correct. The patch I've attached below fixes the > infinite loop in __getblk_slow. This patch also fixes the ext3 mount problem on extented partition. Torsten -- 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
