From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 310a997fd74de778b9a4848a64be9cda9f18764a upstream. It is never possible, that number of block groups decreases, since only online grow is supported. But after a growing occured, we have to zero inode tables for just created new block groups. Fixes: 19c5246d2516 ("ext4: add new online resize interface") Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ mext_out: if (err == 0) err = err2; mnt_drop_write_file(filp); - if (!err && (o_group > EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count) && + if (!err && (o_group < EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count) && ext4_has_group_desc_csum(sb) && test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE)) err = ext4_register_li_request(sb, o_group);