ext4 uses the high bit of the extent length to encode whether the extent
is intialized or not. The helper function ext4_ext_get_actual_len should
be used to get the actual length of the extent.
This addresses the kernel bug documented here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9732
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents.c:1056!
....
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff88366073>] :ext4dev:ext4_ext_get_blocks+0x5ba/0x8c1
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff812748f6>] _spin_unlock+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff883400a6>] :jbd2:start_this_handle+0x4e0/0x4fe
[<ffffffff88366564>] :ext4dev:ext4_fallocate+0x175/0x39a
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff81056480>] __lock_acquire+0x4e7/0xc4d
[<ffffffff81053c91>] lock_release_holdtime+0x27/0x49
[<ffffffff810a8de7>] sys_fallocate+0xe4/0x10d
[<ffffffff8100c043>] tracesys+0xd5/0xda
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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