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jbd: Fail to load a journal if it is too short

Due to on disk corruption, it can happen that journal is too short. Fail
to load it in such case so that we don't oops somewhere later.

Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Jan Kara 16 years ago
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      fs/jbd/journal.c

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fs/jbd/journal.c

@@ -848,6 +848,12 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal)
 
 	first = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_first);
 	last = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_maxlen);
+	if (first + JFS_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS > last + 1) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: Journal too short (blocks %lu-%lu).\n",
+		       first, last);
+		journal_fail_superblock(journal);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	journal->j_first = first;
 	journal->j_last = last;