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 <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 08ddfda..502f0fd 100644 (file)
--- 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