Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix incorrect group count in ext4_fill_super error message

[Andreas Dilger]

You missed the v2 patch, which was better IMHO. 

Cheers, Andreas

> On Mar 28, 2020, at 20:47, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ïOn Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:54:01PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> ext4_fill_super doublechecks the number of groups before mounting; if
>> that check fails, the resulting error message prints the group count
>> from the ext4_sb_info sbi, which hasn't been set yet. Print the freshly
>> computed group count instead (which at that point has just been computed
>> in "blocks_count").
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 4ec1102813798 ("ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem")
> 
> Applied, with a fix to the format string:
> 
>> fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
>> index 0c7c4adb664e..7f5f37653a03 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
>> @@ -4288,7 +4288,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
>>    if (blocks_count > ((uint64_t)1<<32) - EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb)) {
>>        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "groups count too large: %u "
> 
> s/%u/%llu/
> 
>>               "(block count %llu, first data block %u, "
>> -               "blocks per group %lu)", sbi->s_groups_count,
>> +               "blocks per group %lu)", blocks_count,
>>               ext4_blocks_count(es),
>>               le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block),
>>               EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb));
>> -- 
>> 2.26.0
> 
>                        - Ted