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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/group_descr.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/group_descr.rst index 0f783ed88592..7ba6114e7f5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/group_descr.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/group_descr.rst @@ -99,9 +99,12 @@ The block group descriptor is laid out in ``struct ext4_group_desc``. * - 0x1E - \_\_le16 - bg\_checksum - - Group descriptor checksum; crc16(sb\_uuid+group+desc) if the - RO\_COMPAT\_GDT\_CSUM feature is set, or crc32c(sb\_uuid+group\_desc) & - 0xFFFF if the RO\_COMPAT\_METADATA\_CSUM feature is set. + - Group descriptor checksum; crc16(sb\_uuid+group\_num+bg\_desc) if the + RO\_COMPAT\_GDT\_CSUM feature is set, or + crc32c(sb\_uuid+group\_num+bg\_desc) & 0xFFFF if the + RO\_COMPAT\_METADATA\_CSUM feature is set. The bg\_checksum + field in bg\_desc is skipped when calculating crc16 checksum, + and set to zero if crc32c checksum is used. * - - - |