[OE-core] [PATCH] e2fsprogs: 1.43.8 -> 1.44.2

Andrej Valek andrej.valek at siemens.com
Wed May 23 10:23:37 UTC 2018


Hi,

What are your expectations about this feature? Do I need to create a
conditional patch to enable legacy behaviour (default disabled)?
Do we still need to support the such old kernels?

NOTE: I don't have such old kernel to test.

Regards,
Andrej

On 05/23/18 10:08, Andrea Adami wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I have already wrote, metadata_csum hsa been enabled by default with
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/misc/mke2fs.conf.in?id=d0b9e0a6aa7d6805338a43b4e372623352d8df09
>> this commit. Is the issue still there?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrej
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we were writing in parallel, sorry for having jumped in the discussion...
> The reported issue is that some older kernels <3.6 could not mount
> ext4 anymore (invalid argument).
> 
> Now it is clear why:_ it all depends on the e2fsprogs version used to
> create the fs (in that case was Archlinux)..
> For older devices it could be maybe adviseable to disable checksum.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
> 
>> On 05/23/18 09:20, Andrea Adami wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com> wrote:
>>>>> License-Update: The checksum of LIC_FILES_CHKSUM has been changed due to
>>>>>  changed FSF address. The content of NOTICE has no change.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.inc      |  2 +-
>>>>>  ...ix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch | 40 ----------------------
>>>>>  ...fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch | 36 -------------------
>>>>>  .../{e2fsprogs_1.43.8.bb => e2fsprogs_1.44.2.bb}   |  4 +--
>>>>>  4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>>>>>  delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/0001-libext2fs-fix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch
>>>>>  delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch
>>>>>  rename meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/{e2fsprogs_1.43.8.bb => e2fsprogs_1.44.2.bb} (95%)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.inc
>>>>> index 81d90a134c..a54a11c354 100644
>>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.inc
>>>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.inc
>>>>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LICENSE_e2fsprogs-mke2fs = "GPLv2"
>>>>>  LICENSE_e2fsprogs-fsck = "GPLv2"
>>>>>  LICENSE_e2fsprogs-tune2fs = "GPLv2"
>>>>>  LICENSE_e2fsprogs-badblocks = "GPLv2"
>>>>> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://NOTICE;md5=b48f21d765b875bd10400975d12c1ca2 \
>>>>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://NOTICE;md5=d50be0580c0b0a7fbc7a4830bbe6c12b \
>>>>>                        file://lib/ext2fs/ext2fs.h;beginline=1;endline=9;md5=596a8dedcb4e731c6b21c7a46fba6bef \
>>>>>                        file://lib/e2p/e2p.h;beginline=1;endline=7;md5=8a74ade8f9d65095d70ef2d4bf48e36a \
>>>>>                        file://lib/uuid/uuid.h.in;beginline=1;endline=32;md5=dbb8079e114a5f841934b99e59c8820a \
>>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/0001-libext2fs-fix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/0001-libext2fs-fix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch
>>>>> deleted file mode 100644
>>>>> index ff1284edc4..0000000000
>>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/0001-libext2fs-fix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch
>>>>> +++ /dev/null
>>>>> @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
>>>>> -From ae6603206176b771c9ed1f82569f68fc1257f014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> -From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
>>>>> -Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 01:32:02 -0500
>>>>> -Subject: [PATCH] libext2fs: fix build failure in swapfs.c on big-endian
>>>>> - systems
>>>>> -
>>>>> -Addresses-Debian-Bug: #886119
>>>>> -
>>>>> -Reported-by: James Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org>
>>>>> -Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
>>>>> ----
>>>>> -Upstream-Status: Backport
>>>>> -
>>>>> - lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c | 3 ++-
>>>>> - 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>> -
>>>>> -diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c b/lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c
>>>>> -index 6e5cff97..b13dc422 100644
>>>>> ---- a/lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c
>>>>> -+++ b/lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c
>>>>> -@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>>>>> -
>>>>> - #include "ext2_fs.h"
>>>>> - #include "ext2fs.h"
>>>>> -+#include "ext2fsP.h"
>>>>> - #include <ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h>
>>>>> -
>>>>> - #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
>>>>> -@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ void ext2fs_swap_inode_full(ext2_filsys fs, struct ext2_inode_large *t,
>>>>> -       if (inode_includes(inode_size, i_projid))
>>>>> -                 t->i_projid = ext2fs_swab16(f->i_projid);
>>>>> -       /* catch new static fields added after i_projid */
>>>>> --      EXT2FS_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(ext2_inode_large) != 160);
>>>>> -+      EXT2FS_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct ext2_inode_large) != 160);
>>>>> -
>>>>> -       i = sizeof(struct ext2_inode) + extra_isize + sizeof(__u32);
>>>>> -       if (bufsize < (int) i)
>>>>> ---
>>>>> -2.16.1
>>>>> -
>>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch
>>>>> deleted file mode 100644
>>>>> index 38e1bdb3d8..0000000000
>>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch
>>>>> +++ /dev/null
>>>>> @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
>>>>> -From 0a392baf1874964651115d9f77b0daa6851d1daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> -From: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
>>>>> -Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:28:01 +1100
>>>>> -Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mke2fs: enable the metadata_csum and 64bit features
>>>>> - by default"
>>>>> -
>>>>> -This reverts commit cd27af3ecb83e8fd1e3eaa14994284a1818c7c15 as we
>>>>> -don't want to enable features by default that are not supported by
>>>>> -the latest stable e2fsprogs release.
>>>>> -
>>>>> -Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration]
>>>>> -Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
>>>>> -
>>>>> -Rebase to 1.43:
>>>>> -The upstream has disabled metadata_csum by default
>>>>> -this rebase just revert 64bit feature.
>>>>> -Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
>>>>> ----
>>>>> - misc/mke2fs.conf.in | 3 ++-
>>>>> - 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>> -
>>>>> -Index: git/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
>>>>> -===================================================================
>>>>> ---- git.orig/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
>>>>> -+++ git/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
>>>>> -@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
>>>>> -               features = has_journal
>>>>> -       }
>>>>> -       ext4 = {
>>>>> --              features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,64bit,dir_nlink,extra_isize
>>>>> -+              features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize
>>>>> -               inode_size = 256
>>>>> -+              auto_64-bit_support = 1
>>>>> -       }
>>>>> -       small = {
>>>>> -               blocksize = 1024
>>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.8.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.44.2.bb
>>>>> similarity index 95%
>>>>> rename from meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.8.bb
>>>>> rename to meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.44.2.bb
>>>>> index 989d47394b..ee27fd490d 100644
>>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.8.bb
>>>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.44.2.bb
>>>>> @@ -3,17 +3,15 @@ require e2fsprogs.inc
>>>>>  SRC_URI += "file://remove.ldconfig.call.patch \
>>>>>              file://run-ptest \
>>>>>              file://ptest.patch \
>>>>> -            file://Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch \
>>>>>              file://mkdir_p.patch \
>>>>>              file://0001-misc-create_inode.c-set-dir-s-mode-correctly.patch \
>>>>> -            file://0001-libext2fs-fix-build-failure-in-swapfs.c-on-big-endia.patch \
>>>>>              "
>>>>>
>>>>>  SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://e2fsprogs-fix-missing-check-for-permission-denied.patch \
>>>>>                                  file://quiet-debugfs.patch \
>>>>>  "
>>>>>
>>>>> -SRCREV = "af2eac481cf426c05ae12b946396980e16c8ab19"
>>>>> +SRCREV = "7b9ea51db3be8972c7a17de25be179b18fc9fcde"
>>>>>  UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)$"
>>>>>
>>>>>  EXTRA_OECONF += "--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} \
>>>>> --
>>>>> 2.11.0
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just got a warning from users of older kernels.
>>>> There is a noteworthy change in 1.44  [1]  that can make ext4 mount
>>>> fail under some circumstances.
>>>>
>>>> It supports now large_dir and large ext attrs and mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit
>>>> on newer kernels might
>>>> do the trick.
>>>>
>>>> I could not test by myself yet but plan to do that soon.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Andrea
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.44.0
>>>
>>>
>>> I could dig a bit more the issue and apparently is solved: in OE we
>>> carry a patch which does exactly fix that [1]:
>>> Otherwise "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 -O^metadata_csum" create is needed
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>> [1] Revert-mke2fs-enable-the-metadata_csum-and-64bit-fea.patch
>>>  https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/125405/
>>>



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