# \[RFC\] ext4: off by one check in ext4\_ext\_convert\_to\_initialized()

- From: Dan Carpenter \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-06-23 09:15:20 
- List: linux-ext4
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ext4/2012/06/13150216
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ext4/2012/06/13150216/t.md

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I am not very familiar with this code, but I think that we should be
using "<= EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN" here instead of "< EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN".

1)  The other comparisons with EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN use "<=".

2)  On the first side of the if else statement we do:
	if (allocated <= EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN ...
		split_map.m_len = allocated;
    On this side, it would match to do:
	if (map->m_lblk - ee_block + map->m_len <= EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN ...
		split_map.m_len = map->m_lblk - ee_block + map->m_len;

It's not the most air tight of arguments, so I've submitted this with a
big warning message.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 91341ec..2df32a4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3208,7 +3208,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 				goto out;
 			split_map.m_lblk = map->m_lblk;
 			split_map.m_len = allocated;
-		} else if ((map->m_lblk - ee_block + map->m_len <
+		} else if ((map->m_lblk - ee_block + map->m_len <=
 			   EXT4_EXT_ZERO_LEN) &&
 			   (EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT & split_flag)) {
 			/* case 2 */
```