Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 11:17:22 EST


Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 schrieb Peter Staubach:
> > /* We allocate both existing and potentially added groups */
> > flex_group_count = ((sbi->s_groups_count + groups_per_flex - 1) +
> > - ((sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks +1 ) <<
> > + (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks + 1) <<
> >
>
> I suspect that you want to do the le16_to_cpu() and _then_
> add the 1. Otherwise, adding 1 to a different byte order
> value won't do quite what is expected or hoped for...

errm. Right.
Something like this maybe?

[PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian access for flex groups

On big endianess plattforms newly created ext4 file systems cannot be mounted
and show messages like:
[6923911.715968] EXT4-fs: not enough memory for 522250 flex groups
[6923911.715973] EXT4-fs: unable to initialize flex_bg meta info!

We have to access s_reserved_gdb_blocks with le16_to_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: kvm/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ kvm/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1455,8 +1455,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_flex_info(struct su

/* We allocate both existing and potentially added groups */
flex_group_count = ((sbi->s_groups_count + groups_per_flex - 1) +
- ((sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks +1 ) <<
- EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb))) /
+ ((le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks) +
+ 1) << EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb))) /
groups_per_flex;
sbi->s_flex_groups = kzalloc(flex_group_count *
sizeof(struct flex_groups), GFP_KERNEL);
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