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Commit b40ebaf6 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: avoid BUG_ON when creating xattrs



Commit fb0a387d ("ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block
files to < 2^32") added code to try to allocate xattr block with 32-bit
block number for indirect block based files on the grounds that these
files cannot use larger block numbers. It also added BUG_ON when
allocated block could not fit into 32 bits. This is however bogus
reasoning because xattr block is stored in inode->i_file_acl and
inode->i_file_acl_hi and as such even indirect block based files can
happily use full 48 bits for xattr block number. The proper handling
seems to be there basically since 64-bit block number support was added.
So remove the bogus limitation and BUG_ON.

Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Fixes: fb0a387d ("ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121130929.32031-1-jack@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent 956510c0
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