Re: [PATCH] fix ext3 mounts at 16T

[email protected] wrote:

> I have reviewed your patch and found other place which might
> cause overflow as below.  If group_first_block is the first block of
> the last group, overflow will occur.  This has already been fixed
> in my patch.
> 
> o ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv() in fs/ext3/balloc.c
> 	if ((my_rsv->rsv_start >= group_first_block + EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb))
> 		    || (my_rsv->rsv_end < group_first_block))
> 			BUG();
> 

Yes, this isn't being addressed in the current 2.6.18-rc4 kernel. I 
think this is better than casting to unsigned long long:

- 	if ((my_rsv->rsv_start >= group_first_block + EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb))
+ 	if ((my_rsv->rsv_start > group_first_block - 1 + 
EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb))


Thanks,

Mingming

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