This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-do-not-use-stripe_width-if-it-is-not-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:07:35 CET 2017
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:49 +0000
Subject: ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 5469d7c3087ecaf760f54b447f11af6061b7c897 ]
Avoid using stripe_width for sbi->s_stripe value if it is not actually
set. It prevents using the stride for sbi->s_stripe.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2628,9 +2628,9 @@ static unsigned long ext4_get_stripe_siz
if (sbi->s_stripe && sbi->s_stripe <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group)
ret = sbi->s_stripe;
- else if (stripe_width <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group)
+ else if (stripe_width && stripe_width <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group)
ret = stripe_width;
- else if (stride <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group)
+ else if (stride && stride <= sbi->s_blocks_per_group)
ret = stride;
else
ret = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ext4-fix-stripe-unaligned-allocations.patch
queue-4.9/ext4-do-not-use-stripe_width-if-it-is-not-set.patch