Re: [PATCH 3/6] e2fsck: Fix incorrect bbitmap checksum failure caused by integer overflow

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 05:44:04PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On a filesystem with more than 2^32 blocks, the block group checksum test will
> fail because "i" (the group number) is a 32-bit quantity that is used to
> calculate the group's block bitmap block number.  Unfortunately, "i" is not
> automatically promoted to 64-bit for this calculation and overflows.  When this
> happens, e2fsck will incorrectly report bitmap checksum errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the next branch, thanks.

						- Ted
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