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[PATCH] EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage [message #4159]

Fri, 30 June 2006 09:41

Kirill Korotaev
Messages: 137
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

Andrew, Chris,

this bug is not relevant for 2.6.17 and later.
However, it is relevant for all 2.4.x and <2.6.17 kernels,
so I think this can be of interest to some people and worth commiting to
2.6.16.x

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 <vvs@sw.ru> and Andrey Savochkin <saw@sawoct.com>
Test case triggered the issue was created by
Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru>

Signed-Off-By: Vasiliy Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sawoct.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru>

--- ./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 */

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