linux-ext4 - [PATCH] fix calculation of meta

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Date:	Mon,  5 Oct 2015 08:48:22 -0700
From:	Andy Leiserson <andy@...serson.org>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andy Leiserson <andy@...serson.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fix calculation of meta_bg descriptor backups

"group" is the group where the backup will be placed, and is initialized
to zero in the declaration. This meant that backups for meta_bg
descriptors were erroneously written to group 1 and group
(desc_per_block-1).

Signed-off-by: Andy Leiserson <andy@...serson.org>
---
 fs/ext4/resize.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index cf0c472..c7c53fd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ exit_free:
  * do not copy the full number of backups at this time.  The resize
  * which changed s_groups_count will backup again.
  */
-static void update_backups(struct super_block *sb, int blk_off, char *data,
+static void update_backups(struct super_block *sb, sector_t blk_off, char *data,
 			   int size, int meta_bg)
 {
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ static void update_backups(struct super_block *sb, int blk_off, char *data,
 		group = ext4_list_backups(sb, &three, &five, &seven);
 		last = sbi->s_groups_count;
 	} else {
-		group = ext4_meta_bg_first_group(sb, group) + 1;
+		group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, blk_off) + 1;
 		last = (ext4_group_t)(group + EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) - 2);
 	}
 
-- 
2.5.3

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