From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Kalpak Shah <kalpak@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:10:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070420141052.GA28227@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177074341.7371.19.camel@garfield>
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:35:41PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
>
> I saw this problem when I was running a script which created a random
> number of EAs for a file of random sizes. If you mount the image I have
> given, all the EAs are displayed and they can be used/modified/deleted
> without any problems so its not a bug in ext3 code.
Not a bug in the ext3 code, but if a RHEL5 or SLES 10 or Debian etch
user uses EA-in-Inode, with SELinux enabled, and then uses the e2fsck
shipped with their distro, some of the unsorted EA's would get
deleted.... right?
If that's correct, then that's a pretty nasty data corruption problem
(that with SELinux enabled could cause the system to become completely
non-functional, further contributing to SELinux's bad reputation...)
and we'll need to push your patch to the various distro's as a
relatively high priority bug fix.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 12:05 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted Kalpak Shah
2007-04-20 12:38 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-20 13:05 ` Kalpak Shah
2007-04-20 14:10 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-04-20 19:17 ` Kalpak Shah
2007-05-08 5:07 ` Theodore Tso
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