Re: [PATCH] ext3 : Remove redundant condition in ext3_free_blocks_sb()

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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:40:32AM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote:
> Oooops....my bad, but I doubt if we pass such values in ext* code anywhere.

If we have a corrupt filesystem, we can pass total garbage here.  This
check prevents that from corrupting the filesystem further.  Patch NAKed
with extreme prejudice.

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