linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix extent tree corruption that incurred by hole punch [V2]

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:11:28 +0800
From:	Forrest Liu <forrestl@...ology.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2@...il.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix extent tree corruption that incurred by hole
 punch [V2]

2012/12/20 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:32:22PM +0800, Forrest Liu wrote:
>> When depth of extent tree is greater than 1, logical start value
>> of interior node didn't updated correctly in ext4_ext_rm_idx.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Forrest Liu <forrestl@...ology.com>
>
> Applied.
>
> BTW, your reproduction case also results in a file system which isn't
> noticed as being broken by e2fsck.  Eric's patch "e2fsck: Fix
> incorrect interior node logical start values" fixes e2fsck so it
> handles this.  Unfortunately applying his patch seems to uncover a bug
> in e2fsck when clearing a bad extent node (f_extent_bad_node) which we
> need to fix so the regression test suite is passing.
>
>                                             - Ted

Hi Ted,
   I will help to find out the problem in e2fsck.

Thanks,
Forrest
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