[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ocfs2: two bug fixes about xattr and inline-data

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:18:19AM +0800, Tiger Yang wrote:
> I found two serious bugs about xattr and inline-data.

Tristan,
	Can you add tests for this in the xattr suite?  Thanks!

Joel

>
> the first bug:
> in ocfs2_mknod(), we check and found the ACL or security xattr entry  
> could be set into inode in ocfs2_calc_xattr_init(), then don't reserve  
> block for them. But in ocfs2_mknod_locked(), if we found ocfs2 support  
> inline-data, then set id_count with the max_inline_data. After that, we  
> set acl/security xattr entry in ocfs2_init_acl() or  
> ocfs2_init_security_set(), but in there we found inode is full, then  
> panic at ocfs2_claim_metadata in ocfs2_xattr_block_set.
>
> the second bug:
> we don't check inline xattr in ocfs2_try_to_write_inline_data(), so the  
> inline data may overwrite the xattr entries which have already in inode.
>
>
> thanks,
> tiger

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