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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: avoid clearing beyond i_blocks when truncating an inline data file
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:58:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140107175839.GF2822@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389117437-12060-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> A missing cast means that when we are truncating a file which is less
> than 60 bytes, we don't trunate the wrong area of memory, and in fact
> we can end up truncating the next inode in the inode table, or worse
> yet, some other kernel data structure.

s/trunate the wrong/clear the correct/

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-07 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-07 17:57 [PATCH] ext4: avoid clearing beyond i_blocks when truncating an inline data file Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-07 17:58 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-01-08 21:46 ` Jan Kara

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