The patch titled ext3: don't try to resize if there are no reserved gdt blocks left has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-dont-try-to-resize-if-there-are-no-reserved-gdt-blocks-left.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: don't try to resize if there are no reserved gdt blocks left From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx> When trying to resize a ext3 fs and you run out of reserved gdt blocks, you get an error that doesn't actually tell you what went wrong, it just says that the gdb it picked is not correct, which is the case since you don't have any reserved gdt blocks left. This patch adds a check to make sure you have reserved gdt blocks to use, and if not prints out a more relevant error. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/resize.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/resize.c~ext3-dont-try-to-resize-if-there-are-no-reserved-gdt-blocks-left fs/ext3/resize.c --- a/fs/ext3/resize.c~ext3-dont-try-to-resize-if-there-are-no-reserved-gdt-blocks-left +++ a/fs/ext3/resize.c @@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ int ext3_group_add(struct super_block *s if (reserved_gdb || gdb_off == 0) { if (!EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, - EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE)){ + EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE) + || !le16_to_cpu(es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks)) { ext3_warning(sb, __func__, "No reserved GDT blocks, can't resize"); return -EPERM; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx are ext3-dont-try-to-resize-if-there-are-no-reserved-gdt-blocks-left.patch ext4-dont-try-to-resize-if-there-are-no-reserved-gdt-blocks-left.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html