[PATCH] Revert "fs: ext4: check the minimal partition size to mount"

[Simon Glass]

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 14:42, Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This check breaks small partitions (under 1024 blocks) because part_length
> is in units of part.blksz and not bytes. Given the purpose of this
> function, we really want to make sure the partition is SUPERBLOCK_START +
> SUPERBLOCK_SIZE (2048) bytes so we can call ext4_read_superblock without
> error.
>
> The obvious solution is to convert callers from things like
>
>         ext4fs_mount(part_info.size)
>
> to
>
>         ext4fs_mount(part_info.size * part_info.blksz);
>
> However, I'm not really a fan of the bloat that would cause, especially
> since the error is now suppressed. I think the best course of action here
> is to just revert the patch.
>
> This reverts commit 9905cae65e03335aefcb1ebfab5b7ee62d89f64e.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>