Commit f6f96fdb authored by Darrick J. Wong's avatar Darrick J. Wong Committed by Theodore Ts'o

ext4: Fix comparison endianness problem in MMP initialization

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: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent bdfc230f
...@@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ int ext4_multi_mount_protect(struct super_block *sb, ...@@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ int ext4_multi_mount_protect(struct super_block *sb,
/* /*
* write a new random sequence number. * write a new random sequence number.
*/ */
mmp->mmp_seq = seq = cpu_to_le32(mmp_new_seq()); seq = mmp_new_seq();
mmp->mmp_seq = cpu_to_le32(seq);
retval = write_mmp_block(bh); retval = write_mmp_block(bh);
if (retval) if (retval)
......
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