Subtracting the number of the first data block places the superblock backups one block too early, corrupting the file system. When the block size is larger than 1K, the first data block is 0, so the subtraction has no effect and no corruption occurs. Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/resize.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c index c169477..116c80d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -1654,12 +1654,10 @@ errout: err = err2; if (!err) { - ext4_fsblk_t first_block; - first_block = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb, 0); if (test_opt(sb, DEBUG)) printk(KERN_DEBUG "EXT4-fs: extended group to %llu " "blocks\n", ext4_blocks_count(es)); - update_backups(sb, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh->b_blocknr - first_block, + update_backups(sb, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh->b_blocknr, (char *)es, sizeof(struct ext4_super_block), 0); } return err; -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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