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-Tag: v3.15.6~28 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de10aa240c6115c8a8f9889412cea6d4f63b863e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error() commit 94d4c066a4ff170a2671b1a9b153febbf36796f6 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index fe4e668d30231..2735a72d1ec4e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ 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