fsck fails to find and fix ext4 file's leaf extent which overlaps with other extents
Issue
- File with overlapping extents is not fixed by fsck.ext4
- fsck.ext4 does not fix corruption from EXT4 filesystem corruption after splitting an unwritten extent while using Direct I/O
Environment
- RHEL6
- fsck from e2fsprogs earlier than e2fsprogs-1.41.12-14.el6_4.2
- ext4 filesystem
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