From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
mfasheh@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:37:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205213744.GA9814@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233845582-954-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:52:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> the three patches below fix a bug in
> jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() that could possibly lead to
> NULL pointer dereference. The question is how to merge the fix as it
> changes the prototype of the function and both ext4 and ocfs2 use
> it. Mark, Mingming, any suggestions?
Jan, how how easy is it to hit this? Do you believe we should try to
get this in for 2.6.29? I got some final things to push to Linus so
I can also push it via the ext4 tree. I doubt it will conflict with
> anything in my tree, either.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 14:52 [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2 Jan Kara
2009-02-05 14:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] jbd2: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() Jan Kara
2009-02-05 14:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] ext4: Add journal parameter to jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate() Jan Kara
2009-02-05 14:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] ocfs2: " Jan Kara
2009-02-10 3:19 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker
2009-02-10 15:12 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-11 9:25 ` Jan Kara
2009-02-11 21:01 ` Mark Fasheh
2009-02-05 19:32 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in JBD2 Mark Fasheh
2009-02-05 21:37 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-02-09 17:34 ` Jan Kara
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