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It is possible for mkfs to format very small filesystems with too small of an internal log with respect to the various minimum size and block count requirements. If this occurs when the log happens to be smaller than the scan window used for cycle verification and the scan wraps the end of the log, the start_blk calculation in xlog_find_head() underflows and leads to an attempt to scan an invalid range of log blocks. This results in log recovery failure and a failed mount. Since there may be filesystems out in the wild with this kind of geometry, we cannot simply refuse to mount. Instead, cap the scan window for cycle verification to the size of the physical log. This ensures that the cycle verification proceeds as expected when the scan wraps the end of the log. Reported-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.