From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:56:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805141256.43272.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4828FD68.40608@oracle.com>
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:31:04 Tiger Yang wrote:
> Hi, Andrew
>
> This situation only happens we format ext3/4 with inode size more than
> 128 and we have put xattr entries both in ibody and block.
> The consequences about this bug is we will lost the xattr block which
> pointed by i_file_acl with all xattr entires in it. We will alloc a new
> xattr block and put that large value entry in it. The old xattr block
> will become orphan block.
The patch looks good, and it obviously fixes the described problem. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Could it please be added to -stable?
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-14 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 3:24 [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle() Tiger Yang
2008-05-13 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 2:31 ` Tiger Yang
2008-05-13 20:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-14 10:56 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2008-05-14 16:00 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-05-14 17:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 22:30 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-14 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 0:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-13 7:48 ` Tiger Yang
2008-05-13 12:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-13 8:48 ` Kalpak Shah
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