ext4 resize/fsck

Theodore Tso tytso at mit.edu
Wed Feb 4 06:26:14 UTC 2009


It might be fixed with this commit:

commit fdff73f094e7220602cc3f8959c7230517976412
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date:   Mon Jan 26 19:06:41 2009 -0500

    ext4: Initialize the new group descriptor when resizing the filesystem
    
    Make sure all of the fields of the group descriptor are properly
    initialized.  Previously, we allowed bg_flags field to be contain
    random garbage, which could trigger non-deterministic behavior,
    including a kernel OOPS.
    
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433
    
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
    Cc: stable at kernel.org

The patch was merged with mainline shortly after 2.6.29-rc3.

					- Ted




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