On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Mark Asselstine <asselsm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> For two unsigned values the check "block+count < block" is always
>> false. Thus the below patch removes that condition.
>>
> Always? What about "ULONG_MAX + 5"? I believe the answer is 4, but I
> may be wrong. You might want to rethink this one.
Yeah.... it is a total crap patch .... sorry for making the noise.
>
> RE/
> Mark
>
>> =============================================================
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> --- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c 2008-05-11 23:54:40.000000000 +0530
>> +++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c 2008-06-01 00:03:44.000000000 +0530
>> @@ -499,7 +499,6 @@
>> unsigned freed = 0, group_freed;
>>
>> if (block < le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block) ||
>> - block + count < block ||
>> block + count > le32_to_cpu(es->s_blocks_count)) {
>> ext2_error (sb, "ext2_free_blocks",
>> "Freeing blocks not in datazone - "
>>
>>
>> =============================================================
>>
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