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Overflow of cg_niblk causes spurious "SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD" warnings
prompts in fsck_ffs. cg_niblk has type int16_t, but it is (ab)used
to hold the number of inodes per group (it has nothing to do with the
number of inode blocks in the cg as claimed in ffs/fs.h), and there
can be lots of inodes per group. E.g.,
newfs -i 8192 -b 16384 -f 16384 -c 255 ...
gives 0xA900 inodes/group. Assignment of this to cg_niblk gives
-0x5700. This is mostly harmless (ufs/ffs doesn't use cg_niblk, and
bug-for-bug compatible overflow occurs in newfs), but in
fsck_ffs/pass5.c, negative values of cg_niblk limit cg_irotor to 0
and the summary info appears to be bad.
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Submitted by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Obtained from: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
effect on operation of fsck on filesystems without snapshots.
If you get compilation errors, be sure that you have copies of
/usr/include/sys/mount.h (1.94), /usr/include/sys/stat.h (1.21),
and /usr/include/ufs/ffs/fs.h (1.16) as of July 4, 2000 or later.
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Obtained from: Mckusick, BSDI and a host of others
This exactly matches Kirks sources imported under the
Tag MCKUSICK2. These are as supplied by kirk with one small
change needed to compile under freeBSD.
Some FreeBSD patches will be added back, though many have been
added to Kirk's sources already.
bug was the cause of the 'freeing free frag' panics that people have been
seeing with FreeBSD/alpha. I have a similar patch to newfs but I've not
finished testing it.
support, which need a final "\n". I only observed one line of
mangled output, but I think there is another one which suffers
from the same problem, and thus I provide a patch that covers
both.
PR: 7483
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>
