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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] ext4: Fix endian problem in MMP initialization
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> As part of startup, the MMP initialization code does this:
>
> mmp->mmp_seq = seq = cpu_to_le32(mmp_new_seq());
>
> Next, mmp->mmp_seq is written out to disk, a delay happens, and then the MMP
> block is read back in and the sequence value is tested:
>
> if (seq != le32_to_cpu(mmp->mmp_seq)) {
> /* fail the mount */
>
> On a LE system such as x86, the *le32* functions do nothing and this works.
> Unfortunately, on a BE system such as ppc64, this comparison becomes:
>
> if (cpu_to_le32(new_seq) != le32_to_cpu(cpu_to_le32(new_seq)) {
> /* fail the mount */
>
> Except for a few palindromic sequence numbers, this test always
> causes the mount to fail, which makes MMP filesystems generally
> unmountable on ppc64. The attached patch fixes this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

Thanks, this is already in the ext4 tree, although not yet in the
master branch (just the dev branch).

- Ted


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