* Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:22:04PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out > > > > From: Zheng Liu <[email protected]> > > > > When an extent was zeroed out, we forgot to do convert from cpu to le16. > > It could make us hit a BUG_ON when we try to write dirty pages out. So > > fix it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <[email protected]> > > Thanks for finding this! I think we should push this to Linus right > away, and not wait for the next merge window. The bug has been here > for a long time, but it was unmasked by the fact that we unbroke > extent zeroing in 3.9-rcX. > > I have two big questions. (1) Shouldn't Eric Whitney have picked this > up with his ARM pandaboard testing, since IIRC it's big-endian as > well? If not, is there something we can do to improve our testing wrt > to big-endian systems?
The TI OMAP4 processor on my Pandaboard test system is little endian. Eric > > And (2) does it make sense to have an inline function > ext4_ext_set_len(len)? It might save some lines of code, but more > importantly, it might make it less likely that we will overlook this > sort of bug in the future. > > - Ted > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
