On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> This was dropped from 2.6.16-stable somehow:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/30/54
Thanks for forwarding it.
This patch didn't went in this form into Linus' tree, I'd therefore like
to get an ACK from the ext3 maintainers (Cc'ed) before applying it.
> Below is probably mangled by Thunderbird, you'll have
> to fetch it yourself if you want to merge it:
patch(1) has a nice -l option for applying such patches. :-)
> From: Kirill Korotaev <>
>
> This patch fixes ext3 block bitmap leakage,
> which leads to the following fsck messages on
> _healthy_ filesystem:
> Block bitmap differences: -64159 -73707
>
> All kernels up to 2.6.17 have this bug.
>
> Found by
> Vasily Averin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Test case triggered the issue was created by
> Dmitry Monakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Signed-Off-By: Vasiliy Averin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-Off-By: Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> --- ./fs/ext3/inode.c.e3crp 2006-06-28 05:22:40.000000000 +0400
> +++ ./fs/ext3/inode.c 2006-06-27 13:31:20.000000000 +0400
> @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h
>
> branch[0].key = cpu_to_le32(parent);
> if (parent) {
> + keys = 1;
> for (n = 1; n < num; n++) {
> struct buffer_head *bh;
> /* Allocate the next block */
cu
Adrian
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