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Theodore Ts'o authored
Commit 00764937 ("ext4: initialize multi-block allocator before checking block descriptors") causes the block group descriptor's count of the number of free blocks to become inconsistent with the number of free blocks in the allocation bitmap. This is a harmless form of fs corruption, but it causes the kernel to potentially remount the file system read-only, or to panic, depending on the file systems's error behavior. Thanks to Eric Whitney for his tireless work to reproduce and to find the guilty commit. Fixes: 00764937 ("ext4: initialize multi-block allocator before checking block descriptors" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.15 Reported-by: David Jander <david@protonic.nl> Reported-by: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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