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diff --git a/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.6.txt b/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.6.txt index a63450d6..3e8c9f47 100644 --- a/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.6.txt +++ b/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.6.txt @@ -18,14 +18,43 @@ needed. Resize2fs will round down the requested new file system size to the nearest cluster boundary when resizing bigalloc file systems. +Improve error messages issued by badblocks. + +Fuse2fs now supports an offset=<bytes> option which allows operating on +a file system image which is located starting at the specified offset +from the beginning of the image. + + Fixes ----- +Pre-v6.2 Linux kernels had long-standing bug in how the extended +attribute hash was calculated when there were non-ASCII characters in +the xattr name, when the hash would be different depending on whether +the C 'char' type was signed or unsigned. To address this bug, starting +with e2fsprogs 1.46.6+ and Linux 6.2+, we will accept either the signed +or unsigned hash variant, but only set the unsigned hash variant. Since +extended attribute names are in practice composed of ASCII characters, +other than various tests (such as generic/454), most users will +hopefully not notice this change. + Avoid triggering udev in dumpe2fs and "resize2fs -P" for file systems with MMP enabled by opening the device read-only when reading the MMP block. +Fix MMP handling so it can notice when another writer has modify the MMP +block out from under it when stopping a MMP sessions. + +Fix tune2fs so it will detect another device stealing the MMP sessions +while rewriting metadata checksums. + +E2fsck will now check to make sure the journal inode does not have the +encrypt flag set. + +Fix a deadlock bug in e2fsck's error handler when there are errors +trying to write to the file system. + Fix a bug where e2fsck could fail when specifying an undo file and an explicit superblock number. @@ -46,6 +75,9 @@ Add additional bullet-proofing for very badly corrupted file systems. Try avoid UBSAN warnings, null pointer derferences, and other memory bugs. (Addresses CVE-2022-1304) +Don't fail when the source directory for mke2fs -d doesn't support +extended attributese. + Check for and handle malloc() failures when computing the log filename in e2fsck and in the libss library. @@ -55,7 +87,20 @@ are presumed to be blkid specifiers such as UUID=xxx or LABEL=yyy. If a specifier is both a valid pathname name and blkid tag name specifier, priority is given to a blkid resolved pathname. -Update and clarify's chattr's man page and usage message. +Improve tune2fs's error messages. + +Fix a bug in tune2fs which could cause it to crash if device goes +off-line just as it being opened. + +Fix the fsck driver so if it is interrupted while running fsck -N it +doesn't end up kllling all processes on the system. + +Fix a crash in badblocks when the user specifies an overly large +number of blocks tested at a time in read/write or nondestructive +mode. + +Update and clarify's chattr's man page and usage message. Fix spelling +typo's in a variety of different man pages and comments. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -65,12 +110,25 @@ Update to autoconf 2.71. Update flags used to create shared library on Darwin/MacOS. +Speed up e2fsck's clonning of multiply-claimed blocks so it is +substantially faster on very large file systems. + Add tests/fuzz directory with fuzzers from oss-fuzz. +Add a Github Actions configuration file so that Github will run CI tests +on Linux, Windows and MacOS on a push to the e2fsprogs github repo. + +Make the mtab parsing in ext2fs_check_mount_point() more careful so it +won't get confused when a block device shows up in the mnt_name field +for a virtual file system. + +Fix the libss's Makefile to create the man page directory before trying +to install its man page. + Fix various Coverity and compiler warnings. Make tests more portable on various different OS's and system -configurations (e.g., with SELinux enabled). +configurations (e.g., with SELinux enabled, MacOS, and Windows) Use mallinfo2() instead of mallinfo() where avilable, since mallinfo() is deprecated on newer glibc versions. @@ -79,12 +137,28 @@ E2fsck will no longer do a full scan of disconnected directory when trying to print the parent directory, which is pointless and can slow down e2fsck if there are a large number of disconnected directories. +Debugfs will now print the extended attribute's e_hash field. + Fix the setup-schroot script to work on non-Linux platforms. +Fix ext2fs_compare_generic_bmap() so it correctly compares all of the +bits in the bitmap, and so that it works correctly when comparing a +bitarray bitmap with a rbtree-based bitmap. (Fortunately, none of the +programs in e2fsprogs uses bitmap comparison functions.) + Fix memory leaks on error paths. +Add support for the configure option --enable-largefile so that +e2fsprogs can utilize largefile support for the MUSL C library. + +Add an note that the dict library code has been modified, as required by +the Kazlib license. + +Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree. + Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. Add Friulian translation. -Update Chinese and Malay translations. +Update Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Malay, Polish, Serbian, +Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian translations. |