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* [PATCH] fs: befs: use flags field to validate fs state
@ 2016-05-10 18:59 Salah Triki
  2016-05-10 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Salah Triki @ 2016-05-10 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: Salah Triki, linux-kernel

flags field records the state of the superblock, so it is
more appropriate to use this field for validating the fs state than
using the fields log_start and log_end.

Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@acm.org>
---
 fs/befs/super.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/befs/super.c b/fs/befs/super.c
index aeafc4d..079fc00 100644
--- a/fs/befs/super.c
+++ b/fs/befs/super.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ befs_check_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 		return BEFS_ERR;
 	}
 
-	if (befs_sb->log_start != befs_sb->log_end) {
+	if (befs_sb->flags == BFS_DIRTY) {
 		befs_error(sb, "Filesystem not clean! There are blocks in the "
 			   "journal. You must boot into BeOS and mount this volume "
 			   "to make it clean.");
-- 
1.9.1

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* Re: [PATCH] fs: befs: use flags field to validate fs state
  2016-05-10 18:59 [PATCH] fs: befs: use flags field to validate fs state Salah Triki
@ 2016-05-10 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2016-05-10 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Salah Triki; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Tue, 10 May 2016 19:59:42 +0100 Salah Triki <salah.triki@acm.org> wrote:

> flags field records the state of the superblock, so it is
> more appropriate to use this field for validating the fs state than
> using the fields log_start and log_end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@acm.org>
> ---
>  fs/befs/super.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/befs/super.c b/fs/befs/super.c
> index aeafc4d..079fc00 100644
> --- a/fs/befs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/befs/super.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ befs_check_sb(struct super_block *sb)
>  		return BEFS_ERR;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (befs_sb->log_start != befs_sb->log_end) {
> +	if (befs_sb->flags == BFS_DIRTY) {
>  		befs_error(sb, "Filesystem not clean! There are blocks in the "
>  			   "journal. You must boot into BeOS and mount this volume "
>  			   "to make it clean.");

Has this been tested?

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