On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:55:15PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > When expanding an inline data inode, it's possible that the reduction > in the size of the EA structures causes the freeing of the EA block, > which changes the inode. If this happens, the local version of the > inode that ext2fs_inline_data_expand was modifying will be out of sync > with what's on the disk. This local copy gets written out to disk > after a block allocation, at which point it's possible that the inode > EA block and logical block zero point to the same physical block, > which is bad news. > > Therefore, write the local copy to disk before removing the inline > data EA, and reread it afterwards. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted -- 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
