From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 23:15:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error() X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94d4c066a4ff170a2671b1a9b153febbf36796f6;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error() We are spending a lot of time explaining to users what this error means. Let's try to improve the message to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 7f72f50a8fa7..2dcb936be90e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -752,8 +752,8 @@ void ext4_mb_generate_buddy(struct super_block *sb, if (free != grp->bb_free) { ext4_grp_locked_error(sb, group, 0, 0, - "%u clusters in bitmap, %u in gd; " - "block bitmap corrupt.", + "block bitmap and bg descriptor " + "inconsistent: %u vs %u free clusters", free, grp->bb_free); /* * If we intend to continue, we consider group descriptor