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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] libxfs: initialize xfs_alloc_arg structures
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:21:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51068954.4000205@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359240032-11576-3-git-send-email-sandeen@redhat.com>

On 01/26/13 16:40, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This is a merge-to-userspace of kernel commit a0041684
> xfs: zero allocation_args on the kernel stack
>
> When calling xfs_alloc_vextent args.userdata was uninitialized,
> and if we had args.type==XFS_ALLOCTYPE_START_BNO, this uninit
> structure member got tested, leading to some random allocator
> behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen<sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---

I remember seeing this in Dave's:

	[UBER-PATCH, RFC] xfsprogs: sync libxfs to 3.8-rc2 kernel code

http://patchwork.xfs.org/patch/4683/

--Mark.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-26 22:40 [PATCH 0/8] xfsprogs: misc small fixes Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 1/8] libhandle: Guard against string overflow in path_to_fspath() Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 2/8] libxfs: initialize xfs_alloc_arg structures Eric Sandeen
2013-01-28  0:35   ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-28  2:41     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-01-29 18:49       ` Ben Myers
2013-01-28 14:21   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 3/8] libxfs: fix setup_cursor array allocation Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs_repair: Fix free of uninit ptr in xfs_acl_valid() error path Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfs_fsr: guard against path string overflows Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs_fsr: check strdup results properly in initallfs() Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfs_fsr: fix attribute no_change_count logic Eric Sandeen
2013-01-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs_fsr: remove extraneous close() in fsrallfs() Eric Sandeen
2013-02-20 22:09 ` [PATCH 0/8] xfsprogs: misc small fixes Mark Tinguely
2013-02-21 17:02 ` Mark Tinguely

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