NTFS: Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.

      Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
      only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
      refusing the mount.  Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
      problem out.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
index 51428bfce952..8ff6ea778fbd 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ ToDo/Notes:
           non-resident by a concurrent file write.
         - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
           checking itself.  (Jesper Juhl)
+        - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
+          Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
+          only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
+          refusing the mount.  Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
+          problem out.
 
 2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.