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| author | Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> | 2007-07-31 11:37:46 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-01 02:39:37 +0400 |
| commit | dd54567a83057821a667109a5cadec6eed0295de (patch) | |
| tree | 88e06af13f4ba9db1fb61b2ebb5453e80ccd14c5 /fs | |
| parent | 6676ae62822f189e7bca80526eca514c399adcfc (diff) | |
| download | linux-dd54567a83057821a667109a5cadec6eed0295de.tar.xz | |
"ext4_ext_put_in_cache" uses __u32 to receive physical block number
Yan Zheng wrote:
> I think I found a bug in ext4/extents.c, "ext4_ext_put_in_cache" uses
> "__u32" to receive physical block number. "ext4_ext_put_in_cache" is
> used in "ext4_ext_get_blocks", it sets ext4 inode's extent cache
> according most recently tree lookup (higher 16 bits of saved physical
> block number are always zero). when serving a mapping request,
> "ext4_ext_get_blocks" first check whether the logical block is in
> inode's extent cache. if the logical block is in the cache and the
> cached region isn't a gap, "ext4_ext_get_blocks" gets physical block
> number by using cached region's physical block number and offset in
> the cached region. as described above, "ext4_ext_get_blocks" may
> return wrong result when there are physical block numbers bigger than
> 0xffffffff.
>
You are right. Thanks for reporting this!
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 750c46f7d893..78beb096f57d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ int ext4_ext_walk_space(struct inode *inode, unsigned long block, static void ext4_ext_put_in_cache(struct inode *inode, __u32 block, - __u32 len, __u32 start, int type) + __u32 len, ext4_fsblk_t start, int type) { struct ext4_ext_cache *cex; BUG_ON(len == 0); |